Warner, HelenUnknown
Bloomsbury Academic (London, 2021) (eng) English9781350051126Unknown1st ed.CLOTHING AND DRESS ON TELEVISION; UnknownThe study of fashion has expanded into a thriving field of inquiry, with researchers utilizing diverse methods from across subject disciplines to explore fashion and dress in wide–ranging contexts. With an emphasis on material culture and ethnographic approaches in fashion studies, this groundbreaking volume offers fascinating insights into the complex dynamics of research and fashion.
Featuring unique case studies, with interdisciplinary scholars reflecting on their practical research experiences, Fashion Studies provides rich and nuanced perspectives on the use, and mixing and matching of methodological approaches — including object and image based research, the integration of qualitative and quantitative methods and the fluid bridging of theory and practice. Engaging with diverse subjects, from ethnographies of model casting and street–style blogging, wardrobe studies and a material culture analysis of global denim wearing, to Martin Margiela's design and archival methods, Fashion Studies presents complex approaches in a lively and informative manner that will appeal to students of fashion, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies and related fields.
Physical dimension
1 online resource (xii, 178 p.)Unknownill.
Summary / review / table of contents
Introduction: Approaching Fashion, Identity and Celebrity Culture --
Production Cultures and Industry Explanations of Contemporary Fashion Television. The Place of Fashion Television in Cinema History: Industrial Discourse and Cultural Legitimacy --
Costume Design, Practices and Production Cultures --
Textual Approaches to Fashion, Costume and Narrative. Fashion, Costume and Narrative Tropes in TV Drama --
Teen Fashion: Youth and Identity in Popular Teen Dramas --
Fashioning the Past: Gender, Nostalgia and Excess in 'Quality' Period Drama --
Conceptualising Fashion and Celebrity Culture. Fashioning Celebrity: Class, Tastemaking and Cultural Intermediaries --
Consuming Masculinity: Gender, Fashion and TV Celebrity --
Locating the Real: America Ferrera, Fashion, Ethnicity and Authenticity --
Conclusion.