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Zola and Film
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 231

Zola and Film

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-04-26
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  • Publisher: McFarland

French novelist Emile Zola, noted for his championship of the Naturalist novel, has been one of the most adapted authors in world literature. There have been approximately 80 film adaptations of his late 19th century novels and short stories, many of which occurred during the silent era of international film production (1895-1927). While the aesthetic elements of Zola's fiction continue to appeal to international cinema, the author's thematic naturalism and his "scientific methodology" have provided an ideological framework that incorporates art, science and history into the many cinematic adaptations of his work. This collection of essays, contributed by scholars of French literature and fi...

Flaubert Postsecular
  • Language: en

Flaubert Postsecular

Through the emblematic work of acclaimed French novelist Gustave Flaubert, this book contributes to the controversial discussion of modernity's relationship to religion.

Fashion and Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

Fashion and Politics

In this incisive book, leaders from international fashion research and artistic practices probe the nuanced relationship between fashion and politics.

Changing Fashion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 199

Changing Fashion

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-08-01
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  • Publisher: Berg

Changing trends in fashion have always reflected large-scale social and cultural changes. Changing Fashion presents for the first time a multi-disciplinary approach to examining fashion change, bringing together theory from fashion studies, cultural studies, sociology, psychology and art history, amongst others.Ideal for the undergraduate student of fashion and cultural studies, the book has a wide range of contemporary and historical case material which provides practical examples of trend analysis and change, from the art deco textile designs of Sonia Delaunay to the chameleonic shifts in Bob Dylan's appearance over time. Key issues in fashion and identity, such as race, gender and consumption are examined from different disciplinary angles to provide a critical overview of the field. Changing Fashion provides a concise guide to the main theories across disciplines that explain how and why media, clothing styles, and cultural practices fall in and out of fashion.

Future Beauty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 255

Future Beauty

Offers a survey of modern fashion in Japan over the last three decades and the designers behind them.

Fashion and Celebrity Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 325

Fashion and Celebrity Culture

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-01-20
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  • Publisher: Berg

This book provides a fascinating and accessible exploration of fashion and celebrity both past and present. An essential read for students and scholars of fashion and cultural studies.

The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: Volume 2
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 817

The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: Volume 2

Examines the challenges of fashion from the nineteenth-century to the present day, from decolonisation to sustainability.

The Cultural Politics of Anti-Elitism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 386

The Cultural Politics of Anti-Elitism

This book examines the highly ambivalent implications and effects of anti-elitism. It draws on this theme as a cross-cutting entry point to provide transdisciplinary analysis of current conjunctures and their contradictions, drawing on examples from popular culture and media, politics, fashion, labour and spatial arrangements. Using the toolboxes of media and discourse analysis, hegemony theory, ethnography, critical social psychology and cultural studies more broadly, the book surveys and theorizes the forms, the implications and the ambiguities and limits of anti-elitist formations in different parts of the world. Anti-elitist sentiments colour the contemporary political conjuncture as muc...

Building a City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 365

Building a City

The fiction of Nobel Laureate Shmuel Yosef Agnon is the foundation of the array of scholarly essays as seen through the career of Alan Mintz, visionary scholar and professor of Jewish literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Mintz introduced Agnon's posthumously published Ir Umeloah (A City in Its Fullness)—a series of linked stories set in the 17th century and focused on Agnon's hometown, Buczacz, a town in what is currently western Ukraine—to an English reading audience, and argued that Agnon's unique treatment of Buczacz in A City in its Fullness, navigating the sometimes tenuous boundary of the modernist and the mythical, was a full-throated, self-conscious literary response to the Holocaust. This volume is an extension of a memorial dedicated to Mintz's memory (who died suddenly in 2017) which combines selections of Alan's work from the beginning, middle and end of his career, with autobiographical tributes from older and younger scholars alike. The essays dealing with Agnon and Buczacz remember the career of Alan Mintz and his contribution to the world of Jewish studies and within the world of Jewish communal life.

When Clothes Become Fashion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 254

When Clothes Become Fashion

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-09-15
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  • Publisher: Berg

When, how and why do clothes become fashion? Fashion is more than mere clothing. It is a moment of invention, a distillation of desire, a reflection of a zeitgeist. This book explores the structures and strategies which underlie fashion innovation, how fashion is perceived and the point at which clothing is accepted or rejected as fashion.