Thinking through fashion : a guide to key theorists / Agn es Rocamora and Anneke Smelik (editors).

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9781780767345

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DDC classification:

391 ROC 23

LOC classification:

GT511 .T45 2016eb

Contents:

Thinking through fashion: an introduction / Agnès Rocamora and Anneke Smelik -- Karl Marx: fashion and capitalism / Anthony Sullivan -- Sigmund Freud: more than a fetish: fashion and psychoanalysis / Janice Miller -- Georg Simmel: the 'philosophical Monet' / Peter McNeil -- Walter Benjamin: fashion, modernity and the city street / Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas -- Mikhail Bakhtin: fashioning the grotesque body / Francesca Granata -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty: the corporeal experience of fashion / Llewellyn Negrin -- Roland Barthes: semiology and the rhetorical codes of fashion / Paul Jobling -- Erving Goffmann: social science as an art of cultural observation / Efrat Tseëlon -- Gilles Deleuze: bodies-without-organs in the folds of fashion / Anneke Smelik -- Michel Foucault: fashioning the body politic / Jane Tynan -- Niklas Luhmann: fashion between the fashionable and old-fashioned / Aurélie Van de Peer -- Jean Baudrillard: post-modern fashion as the end of meaning / Efrat Tseëlon -- Pierre Bourdieu: the field of fashion / Agnès Rocamora -- Jacques Derrida: fashion under erasure / Alison Gill -- Bruno Latour: actor-network-theory and fashion / Joanne Entwistle -- Judith Butler: fashion and performativity / Elizabeth Wissinger.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	391 ROC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100632521

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

List of Figures (p. vii)
Acknowledgements (p. ix)
1 Thinking through Fashion: An Introduction (p. 1)
2 Karl Marx: Fashion and Capitalism (p. 28)
3 Sigmund Freud: More than a Fetish: Fashion and Psychoanalysis (p. 46)
4 Georg SimmehThe 'Philosophical Monet' (p. 63)
5 Walter Benjamin: Fashion, Modernity and the City Street (p. 81)
6 Mikhail Bakhtin: Fashioning the Grotesque Body (p. 97)
7 Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The Corporeal Experience of Fashion (p. 115)
8 Roland Barthes: Semiology and the Rhetorical Codes of Fashion (p. 132)
9 Erving Goffmann: Social Science as an Art of Cultural Observation (p. 149)
10 Gilles Deleuze: Bodies-without-Organs in the Folds of Fashion (p. 165)
11 Michel Foucault: Fashioning the Body Politic (p. 184)
12 Niklas Luhmann: Fashion between the Fashionable and Old-fashioned (p. 200)
13 Jean Baudrillard: Post-modern Fashion as the End of Meaning (p. 215)
14 Pierre Bourdieu: The Field of Fashion (p. 233)
15 Jacques Derrida: Fashion under Erasure (p. 251)
16 Bruno Latour: Actor-Network-Theory and Fashion (p. 269)
17 Judith Butler: Fashion and Performativity (p. 285)
Contributors (p. 300)
Index (p. 304)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Agns 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 Media (I.B. Tauris, 2009) She also co-edits the International Journal of Fashion Studies.
Annele Smelik is Professor of Visual Culture on the Katrien van Munster chair at the Radbound University Nijmegen, Netherlands. Her books include Delft Blue to Denim Blue: Dutch Fashion (I.B. Tauris, 2016). She is project leader of the research program 'Crafting Wearables: Fashionable Technolohy'.