Overview

Learning how to think through fashion is both exciting and challenging, being dependent on one s ability to critically engage with an array of theories and concepts. This is the first book designed to accompany readers through the process of thinking through fashion. It aims to help them grasp both the relevance of social and cultural theory to fashion, dress, and material culture and, conversely, the relevance of those fields to social and cultural theory. It does so by offering a guide through the work of selected major thinkers, introducing their concepts and ideas. Each chapter is written by an expert contributor and is devoted to a key thinker, capturing the significance of their thought to the understanding of the field of fashion, while also assessing the importance of this field for a critical engagement with these thinkers ideas. This is a guide and reference for students and scholars in the fields of fashion, dress and material culture, the creative industries, sociology, cultural history, design and cultural studies.""

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Author:   Dr Agnès Rocamora ,  Anneke Smelik
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9781780767338

ISBN 10:   1780767331
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   23 October 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements Introduction to Thinking through Fashion Agnes Rocamora and Anneke Smelik 2. Karl Marx: Fashion and Capitalism Anthony Sullivan 3. Sigmund Freud: More than a Fetish: Fashion and Psychoanalysis Janice Miller 4. Georg Simmel: The 'Philosophical Monet' Peter McNeil 5. Walter Benjamin: Fashion, Modernity and the City Street Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas 6. Mikhail Bakhtin: Fashioning the Grotesque Body Francesca Granata 7. Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The Corporeal Experience of Fashion Llewellyn Negrin 8. Roland Barthes: Semiology and the Rhetorical Codes of Fashion Paul Jobling 9. Erving Goffmann: Social Science as an Art of Cultural Observation Efrat Tseelon 10. Gilles Deleuze: Bodies-without-Organs in the Folds of Fashion Anneke Smelik 11. Michel Foucault: Fashioning the Body Politic Jane Tynan 12. Niklas Luhmann: Fashion between the Fashionable and Old-fashioned Aurelie van de Peer 13. Jean Baudrillard: Postmodern Fashion as the End of Meaning Efrat Tseelon 14. Pierre Bourdieu: The Field of Fashion Agnes Rocamora 15. Jacques Derrida: Fashion under Erasure Alison Gill 16. Bruno Latour: Actor-Network-Theory and Fashion Joanne Entwistle 17. Judith Butler: Fashion and Performativity Elizabeth Wissinger Notes on Contributors Index

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Agnes Rocamora is Reader in Social and Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. She is the author of Fashioning the City: Paris, Fashion and the Media (I.B. Tauris 2009) and a co-editor of The Handbook of Fashion Studies (2013) and of Fashion Media: Past and Present (2013).""

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