Fashion in fiction : Text and clothing in literature, film, and television 1st ed.

Author

Additional Author(s)

• McNeil, Peter
• Karaminas, Vicki
• Cole, Catherine

Publisher

Oxford: Berg, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9781847883773

Series

Subject(s)

• FASHION IN LITERATURE
• CLOTHING AND DRESS IN LITERATURE

Notes

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Abstract

Fashion in Fiction examines the ways in which dress ‘performs’ in a wide range of contemporary and historical literary texts. Essays by North American, European and Australian scholars explore the function of clothing within fictional narratives, including those of film, television and advertising. The book provides a groundbreaking examination of the interconnected worlds of fashion and words, providing perspectives from socio-cultural, historical and theoretical readings of fashion and text-based communication.Covering a variety of genres and periods, Fashion in Fiction analyses fashion’s role within a range of creative media, exploring the many ways that dress communicates, disrupts and modulates meaning across different cultures and contexts.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xviii, 210 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Fashion tales and the visual imagination. Dressing for success / Clair Hughes --
Grisettes, cocottes, and bohèmes: fashion and fiction in the 1820s / Denise Amy Baxter --
Clothing, class deception, and identity in late nineteenth-century fiction / Rosy Aindow --
Novelist as stylist, designer as storyteller / Sophia Errey --
The mystery of the fashion photograph / Margaret Maynard --
The fashioned world of Andrea Zittel / Tim Lawrence --
Crossing cultures, queering cultures. Tanizaki Jun'ichirō's Naomi / Toby Slade --
Brand storytelling: context and meaning for cargo pants / Joseph Henry Hancock II --
Double dresses for double brides / Catherine Harper ; Collection L / Maja Gunn --
The pleasures of the text. Fashion reform: aesthetic movement in dress and interiors / Marilyn Casto --
Holly Golightly and the fashioning of the waif / Gabrielle Finnane --
Becoming neo: costume and transforming masculinity in the Matrix films / Sarah Gilligan --
Signs of bliss in texture and textiles / Dagmar Venohr.

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00078/22	809.933564 Fas	Online !	Available