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Fashion and psychoanalysis : styling the self / Alison Bancroft.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: International library of cultural studies ; 23.Publication details: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2012.Description: ix, 238 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1780760043 (pbk)
  • 9781780760049 (pbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 391 BAN
Contents:
1. Fashion Photography and the Myth of the Unified Subject -- 2. Inspiring Desire: The Case for Haute Couture -- 3. Queering Fashion, Dressing Transgression -- 4. Fashion, Text, Symptom.
Summary: In this innovative new book, Alison Bancroft re-examines significant moments in twentieth century fashion history through the focal lens of psychoanalytic theory. Her discussion centres on studies of fashion photography, haute couture, queer dressing, and fashion/art in an attempt to shed new light on these key issues. According to Bancroft, problems of subjectivity are played out through fashion, in the public arena, and not just in the dark, unknowable unconscious mind. The question of what can be said, and what can only be experienced, and how these two issues may be reconciled, become questions that fashion addresses on an almost daily basis. By interpreting fashion within a psychoanalytic frame, Bancroft illustrates how fashion articulates some of the essential, and sometimes frightening, truths about the body, femininity and the self.
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Standard Loan Clonmel Library Main Collection 391 BAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39002100635425
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 391 BAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100463620

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In this innovative new book, Alison Bancroft re-examines significant moments in twentieth century fashion history through the focal lens of psychoanalytic theory. Her discussion centres on studies of fashion photography, haute couture, queer dressing, and fashion/art in an attempt to shed new light on these key issues. According to Bancroft, problems of subjectivity are played out through fashion, in the public arena, and not just in the dark, unknowable unconscious mind. The question of what can be said, and what can only be experienced, and how these two issues may be reconciled, become questions that fashion addresses on an almost daily basis. By interpreting fashion within a psychoanalytic frame, Bancroft illustrates how fashion articulates some of the essential, and sometimes frightening, truths about the body, femininity and the self.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-234) and index.

1. Fashion Photography and the Myth of the Unified Subject -- 2. Inspiring Desire: The Case for Haute Couture -- 3. Queering Fashion, Dressing Transgression -- 4. Fashion, Text, Symptom.

In this innovative new book, Alison Bancroft re-examines significant moments in twentieth century fashion history through the focal lens of psychoanalytic theory. Her discussion centres on studies of fashion photography, haute couture, queer dressing, and fashion/art in an attempt to shed new light on these key issues. According to Bancroft, problems of subjectivity are played out through fashion, in the public arena, and not just in the dark, unknowable unconscious mind. The question of what can be said, and what can only be experienced, and how these two issues may be reconciled, become questions that fashion addresses on an almost daily basis. By interpreting fashion within a psychoanalytic frame, Bancroft illustrates how fashion articulates some of the essential, and sometimes frightening, truths about the body, femininity and the self.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgements (p. ix)
  • Introduction (p. 1)
  • 1 Fashion Photography and the Myth of the Unified Subject (p. 23)
  • 2 Inspiring Desire: The Case for Haute Couture (p. 59)
  • 3 Queering Fashion, Dressing Transgression (p. 103)
  • 4 Fashion, Text, Symptom (p. 149)
  • Conclusion (p. 189)
  • Notes (p. 199)
  • Bibliography (p. 221)
  • Index (p. 235)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Alison Bancraft is a writer and cultural critic. She specialises in interdisciplinary approaches to modern and contemporary art and contexts. Her research interests include visual culture, and is committed to working across all media and contexts. Her research interests include visual culture and theory, psychoanalytic thought, and sexualities. She was awarded her PhD by the University of London in 2010.

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