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

Contributor(s): Series: Dress culturesPublisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2025Copyright date: ©2025Edition: Second and expanded editionDescription: 323 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781350376519
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • TT507 .T55 2025
Partial contents:
Introduction to Thinking through Fashion / Agnès Rocamora and Anneke Smelik -- Karl Marx : Fashion and Capitalism / Anthony Sullivan -- Sigmund Freud: More than a Fetish : Fashion and Psychoanalysis / Janice Miller -- Georg Simmel : The 'Philosophical Monet' / Peter McNeil -- W.E.B. Du Bois : Fashion through the Veil / Luciana Scrutchen -- Walter Benjamin : Fashion, Modernity and the City Street / Vicki Karaminas and Adam Geczy -- Mikhail Bakhtin : Fashioning the Grotesque Body / Francesca Granata.
Summary: "A vital update to the definitive guide to fashion and cultural theory, featuring four new chapters on key theorists Edward Said, bell hooks, Frantz Fanon and W.E.B. Du Bois, a new preface and updated introduction, and essential revisions to equip readers with the most up-to-date developments in fashion and fashion studies. Across 19 major thinkers from the 19th to the 21st century, the second edition of this crucial collection introduces readers to the process of thinking through rich cultural fields such as fashion with the help of social and cultural theory, and thinking through social and cultural theory with the help of fashion"--
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to Thinking through Fashion / Agnès Rocamora and Anneke Smelik -- Karl Marx : Fashion and Capitalism / Anthony Sullivan -- Sigmund Freud: More than a Fetish : Fashion and Psychoanalysis / Janice Miller -- Georg Simmel : The 'Philosophical Monet' / Peter McNeil -- W.E.B. Du Bois : Fashion through the Veil / Luciana Scrutchen -- Walter Benjamin : Fashion, Modernity and the City Street / Vicki Karaminas and Adam Geczy -- Mikhail Bakhtin : Fashioning the Grotesque Body / Francesca Granata.

"A vital update to the definitive guide to fashion and cultural theory, featuring four new chapters on key theorists Edward Said, bell hooks, Frantz Fanon and W.E.B. Du Bois, a new preface and updated introduction, and essential revisions to equip readers with the most up-to-date developments in fashion and fashion studies. Across 19 major thinkers from the 19th to the 21st century, the second edition of this crucial collection introduces readers to the process of thinking through rich cultural fields such as fashion with the help of social and cultural theory, and thinking through social and cultural theory with the help of fashion"--

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