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Fashion in fiction : text and clothing in literature, film, and television / edited by Peter McNeil, Vicki Karaminas, and Catherine Cole.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2009.Edition: English edDescription: xvii, 194 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 1847883575 (pbk.)
  • 9781847883575 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 391.009 MCN
Contents:
Part I. 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 -- Part II. 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 -- Part III. 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 391.009 MCN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100398800

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references (167-184) and index.

Part I. 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 -- Part II. 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 -- Part III. 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.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • Part 1 Fashion Tales And The Visual Imagination
  • 1 The Question of Costume: Dressing for Success in the 19th century Novel
  • 2 A Hovering Space: The Mystery of the Fashion Photograph
  • 3 Fashion and the Art of Class Deception: Clothing and Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century Fiction
  • 4 Grisettes, cocottes, and bohemes: Fashion and Fiction in Octave Tassaert's 'Boudoirs et mansardes' (1828) and 'Les amants et les Epoux' (1829)
  • 5 Fair Exchange: Novelist as Stylist, Designer as Storyteller Sophia Errey, RMIT
  • 6 The Fashioned World of Andrea Zittel
  • Part 2 Crossing Cultures, Queering Cultures
  • 7 Junichiro Tanizaki's 'Naomi' and the Power of Foreign Clothing in Modern Japanese Fiction
  • 8 The Fire Sermon: Fashion, Memory and Representation
  • 9 A Conceptual Framework for Brand Storytelling: Creating Context and Meaning for Cargo Pants
  • 10 Double Brides: Narratives of Desire in the recent 'Wedding Dresses' of lesbian couples
  • 11 'Collection L'
  • Part 3 Fashion's Textual Identities
  • 12 Aesthetic Movement Fashion Reform: Dress and Interiors
  • 13 Holly Golightly and the fashioning of the waif
  • 14 Becoming Neo: Costume, Gadgets and Transforming Masculinity in 'The Matrix' films
  • 15 Textile as Sign of Barthes' Bliss Concept within the Texture of Nietzsche
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Peter McNeil is Professor of Design History at The University of Technology, Sydney and Foundation Chair of Fashion Studies at Stockholm University. He is editor of Fashion: Critical and Primary Sources and co-editor of Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers, The Men's Fashion Reader and The Fashion History Reader: Global Perspectives.

Catherine Cole is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and author of The Poet who Forgot, The Grave at Thy Lu, Dry Dock, Skin Deep, Private Dicks and Fiesty Chicks: An Interrogation of Crime Fiction.

Vicki Karaminas is Associate Professor in Fashion Theory and Design Studies at the School of Design, The University of Technology, Sydney and co-editor of The Men's Fashion Reader

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