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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rocamora, Agnès, editor.

Smelik, Anneke, editor.

Series:

Dress cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fashion.

Fashion--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

viii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2016.

Summary:

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 thinker's 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Thinking through Fashion: An Introduction / Agnés Rocamora Rocamora, Agnés, Anneke Smelik Smelik, Anneke 1

2 Karl Marx: Fashion and Capitalism / Anthony Sullivan Sullivan, Anthony 28

3 Sigmund Freud: More than a Fetish: Fashion and Psychoanalysis / Janice Miller Miller, Janice 46

4 Georg SimmehThe 'Philosophical Monet' / Peter McNeil McNeil, Peter 63

5 Walter Benjamin: Fashion, Modernity and the City Street / Adam Geczy Geczy, Adam, Vicki Karaminas Karaminas, Vicki 81

6 Mikhail Bakhtin: Fashioning the Grotesque Body / Francesco Granata Granata, Francesco 97

7 Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The Corporeal Experience of Fashion / Llewellyn Negrin Negrin, Llewellyn 115

8 Roland Barthes: Semiology and the Rhetorical Codes of Fashion / Paul Jobling Jobling, Paul 132

9 Erving Goffmann: Social Science as an Art of Cultural Observation / Efrat Tseëlon Tseëlon, Efrat 149

10 Gilles Deleuze: Bodies-without-Organs in the Folds of Fashion / Anneke Smelik Smelik, Anneke 165

11 Michel Foucault: Fashioning the Body Politic / Jane Tynan Tynan, Jane 184

12 Niklas Luhmann: Fashion between the Fashionable and Old-fashioned / Aurelie Van de Peer Peer, Aurelie Van de 200

13 Jean Baudrillard: Post-modern Fashion as the End of Meaning / Efrat Tseëlon Tseëlon, Efrat 215

14 Pierre Bourdieu: The Field of Fashion / Agnès Rocamora Rocamora, Agnès 233

15 Jacques Derrida: Fashion under Erasure / Alison Gill Gill, Alison 251

16 Bruno Latour: Actor-Network-Theory and Fashion / Joanne Entwistle Entwistle, Joanne 269

17 Judith Butler: Fashion and Performativity / Elizabeth Wissinger Wissinger, Elizabeth 285.

Notes:

Actually published: 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781780767345

178076734X

9781780767338

1780767331

OCLC:

930533868