Toni Johnson-Woods & Joseph H. Hancock II 
Fashion in Popular Culture [EPUB ebook] 
Literature, Media and Contemporary Studies

When we open our closet doors each morning, we seldom consider what our sartorial choices say, whether we tend toward jeans and a well-worn concert t-shirt or wingtips and a three-piece suit. Yet, how we dress divulges more than whether we crave comfort or couture; our clothing communicates who we are and how we relate to our culture. But how does a Balenciaga bag or a tough leather jacket topped by liberty spikes signify these things?



Fashion in Popular Culture considers this question. Combining fashion theory with approaches from literature, art, advertising, music, media studies, material studies, and sociology, contributors from across Europe, Australia, and the United States consider the function of fashion within popular culture. Fashion, they show, has the capacity to both influence and be influenced by popular culture, and its meaning is also contingent upon context. Chapters in the book cover both historical and contemporary concerns, addressing a variety of other questions, including the role fashion plays in subcultures.



For students and scholars of fashion and popular culture—or anyone fascinated by what clothing can convey—
Fashion in Popular Culture offers an engaging, interdisciplinary analysis.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction – Joseph H. Hancock, II, Toni Johnson-Woods and Vicki Karaminas List of Figures Fashion in Contemporary Culture Chapter 1: Brand This Way: Lady Gaga’s Fashion as Storytelling Context to the GLBT Community – Joseph H. Hancock, II Chapter 2: Navigating Cultural Anxiety: Strategic Ambiguity in Lisbeth Salander’s Style-Fashion-Dress – Susan B. Kaiser Chapter 3: Australian Gothic: Black Light Angels, Appearance, and Subcultural Style – Vicki Karaminas Chapter 4: Fashionable Addiction: The Path to Heroin Chic – Alphonso D. Mc Clendon Fashion in Media and Literature Chapter 5: Dames and Design: Fashion and Appearance on Pulp Fiction Covers, 1950–1960 – Toni Johnson-Woods Chapter 6: Territories of Knowledge and Nostalgia in Modern Fashion Designer Life Writing – Ilya Parkins Chapter 7: Looking for Mr. Benson: The Black Leather Motorcycle Jacket and Narratives of Masculinities – Marvin J. Taylor Chapter 8: Fashion Photography, Phallocentrism, and Feminist Critique – Louise Wallenberg Chapter 9: ‘He Can’t Love Me if I’m Ugly’: The Recurring Theme of Popular Beauty in the Television Soap Opera Days of Our Lives – Andrew Reilly and Nancy A. Rudd Chapter 10: Redressing the Devil’s Wardrobe: Representing and Re-Reading the Darker Side of Fashion in Chick Lit Novels – Anne Peirson-Smith Fashion in Historical Context Chapter 11: Redeeming the Voices of Reform – Patricia A. Cunningham Chapter 12: The Language of Luxury in Eighteenth-Century France – Paula von Wachenfeldt Chapter 13: The Devil of Fashion: Women, Fashion, and the Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century German and Swedish Cultural Magazines – Andrea Kollnitz Chapter 14: Rome: Eternal City of Fashion and Film – Eugenia Paulicelli

Om författaren

Dr Vicki Karaminas is professor of fashion and director of doctoral studies for the School of Design at the College of Creative Arts, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand. She is the editor (with Adam Geczy) of Fashion and Art (2012) and The End of Fashion: Clothing and Dress in the Age of Globalization (2018). She is the author (with Adam Geczy) of the following books; Queer Style (2013), Fashion’s Double: Representations of Fashion in Painting, Photography and Film (2015), Critical Fashion Practice from Westwood to Van Beirendonck (2017), Fashion and Masculinities in Popular Culture (2017) Fashion Installation: Body, Space and Performance (2018) and Libertine Fashion: Sexual Rebellion, Freedom and Style (forthcoming 2020) Other book projects include Shanghai Street Style (2013), Sydney Street Style (2014), Fashion in Popular Culture (2010), The Men’s Fashion Reader (2009), and Fashion in Fiction: Text and Clothing in Literature, Film and Television (2009). She is founding editor of The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture and the founding editor of the Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture. She is a member of advisory and editorial boards of a number of international journals, including Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress and the Body, Film, Fashion and Consumption, Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion, The International Journal of Fashion Studies and Zone Moda Journal.