Documenting Fashion / edited by Elena Caoduroand Boel Ulfsdotter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Caoduro, Elena, editor.

Ulfsdotter, Boel, editor.

Series:

Film and fashions.

Film and Fashions Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Vocational guidance.

Art.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 282 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Feuds within fashion houses, megalomaniacs and photoshoot nightmares - fashion and drama have been a perfect match for decades. Over the past ten years, we have witnessed a boom of documentaries about fashion magazine editors, fashion and media politics and the history of fashion houses.<br><br>How and why did fashion documentaries and non-fiction media become so popular? Documenting Fashion explores and reassesses the role of documentary media by tracing its history in shaping our understanding of fashion across multiple platforms and different national contexts, including industrial films, newsreels, TV shows, documentary films, digital media and photography. The essays in this collection underpin and profile a scholarly space in which a dialogue between fashion and documentary studies can evolve by drawing from different methodologies and approaches, such as media and cultural studies, ethnography, archival and museum studies, gender studies, marketing and public relations.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgements

Notes on contributors

Introduction

Part I: Film

Chapter 1 Fashion documentaries and the tension between celebratory and critical approaches

Expanding interview 1 Elena Caoduro in conversation with Lorna Tucker, director of Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist (2018)

Chapter 2. 'The Helen Rose originals are fabulous': the fashion featurette and fashion show as sites of industrial reflexivity

Chapter 3. The fashion of east and west in German cinema newsreels (1950-65)

Chapter 4. 'Third way' teenage fashion: housewives' films documenting ideals of middle-class youth culture in 1950s Sweden

Chapter 5. A maverick on the streets: Bill Cunningham and the documentary process

Chapter 6. Extending the exhibition narrative: making sense of non-fiction fashion footage

Expanding interview 2 Boel Ulfsdotter in conversation with Alexandra Palmer at Royal Ontario Museum, Canada

Chapter 7. Documenting fashion history: television and the temporalities of cultural remembrance

Chapter 8. Italian ready-to-wear fashion through Cori-carousels

Chapter 9. Fashioning self-care: Queer Eye, affect and makeover culture

Part III: Digital media

Chapter 10. From newsreel to 'see now, buy now': a genealogy of the fashion show live stream

Chapter 11. Documenting fashion in the era of Instagram: a critical reading of Asri Bendacha's Follow Me and Chiara Ferragni's Unposted

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Oct 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-7619-8

1-4744-7618-X

OCLC:

1374540658