The Fabric of Cultures

Fashion, Identity, and Globalization
Herausgeber: Paulicelli, Eugenia; Clark, Hazel

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Produktbeschreibung

The Fabric of Cultures examines the impact of fashion as a manufacturing industry and as a culture industry that shapes identities of nations and cities in a cross-cultural perspective and within a global framework.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 162mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9780415775427
• ISBN-10: 0415775426
• Artikelnr.: 25684680

Autorenporträt

Eugenia Paulicelli is Professor of Italian, Comparative Literature and Women's Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is also Co-Director of the Graduate Center Fashion Studies Concentration. Her recent publications include Fashion under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt (2004) and her articles on fashion have appeared in the journals, Fashion Theory and Gender & History. Hazel Clark is Dean, School of Art and Design History and Theory, Parsons The New School for Design, New York. She is a design historian and theorist, with a specialist interest in fashion, design and cultural identity. She is the author of The Cheongsam (2000) and co-editor, with A. Palmer of Old Clothes, New Looks: Second Hand Fashion (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction
Eugenia Paulicelli and Hazel Clark 1. From Potlach to Wal-Mart: Courtly and
Capitalist Hierarchies through Dress Jane Schneider 2. Dressing the Nation:
Indian Cinema Costume and the Making of a National Fashion, 1947-1957
Rachel Morris 3. Made in America: Paris, New York, and Postwar Fashion
Photography Helena Cunha Ribeiro 4. Framing the Self, Staging Identity:
Clothing and Italian Style in the Films of Michelangelo Antonioni
(1950-1964) Eugenia Paulicelli 5. The Art of Dressing. Body, Gender and
Discourse on fashion in Soviet Russia in the 1950s and 1960s Olga Gurova
6. Making Modernity Appropriate and Tradition Fashionable: Debates about
Dress, Identity, and Gender in Ho Chi Minh City Ann Marie Leshkowich 7.
Youth, Gender, and Secondhand Clothing in Lusaka, Zambia: Local and Global
Styles Karen Tranberg Hansen 8. Fashion Design and Technologies in a Global
Context Michiel Scheffer 9. Fabricating Greekness: from Fustanella to the
Glossy Page Michael Skafidas 10. Fashion Brazil: South American Style,
Culture and Industry Valéria Brandini 11. Fashioning "China Style" in the
Twenty First Century Hazel Clark 12. From Factories to Fashion: An Intern's
Experience of a Global Fashion Capital Christina H. Moon Index