FASHION, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY Fashion As Performance Elizabeth Patterson Fashion As Performance represents the first critical examination of fashion as dramatic performance. Going beyond analyses of fashion as a means of social performance, relating to communication and consumption of community, cultural and personal identity, this highly original and engaging book explores the ways in which clothing operates by applying key performance theory approaches. From Aristotle and Brecht to Auslander and Boal, elements of classical and current dramatic theory are used in case study style to unpack specific collections, designers and moments in contemporary fashion at which dramatic theory finds its way to the runway, the hanger and the street corner. ELIZABETH PATTERSON is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Elon University, North Carolina, USA.
1. Fashion as Performance: A Theoretical Foundation 2. “Body Becomes Dress Becomes Body”/Rei Kawakubo and Cindy Sherman: The Mobius Strip of the Dressing Body 3. Under Wear/Joseph Corre’s Male Gaze: Jill Dolan and the Feminist Spectator 4. Thierry Mugler and 2003’s Zumanity: Between Fashion and Costume 5. Dirk Bikkembergs/A Matter of Performance: Materiality, Technological and Dramatic Performance 6. Martin Margiela’s Brechtian Stitch: Exposure of Craft, Exposure of Performance
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Introduction
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7. “Vicious is the Look”/Gareth Pugh’s Presentation of Self: Considering Persona and Character
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8. McQ/Alexander McQueen and Target: Theatrical Phenomenology and Plasticity in Clothing
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9. Fashion is Performance: Conclusion and Beyond Bibliography Index
Porn Chic Exploring the Contours of Raunch Eroticism Annette Lynch This engaging book draws from a diverse range of examples including film, popular tabloids, campus culture, mass media marketing campaigns, facebook profiles, and art exhibits to explore expressions and meanings of porn chic. Bringing a cultural and feminist lens to the material, this book challenges the reader to question the sexual agency of the 12-year-old girl dressed to seduce in fashions inspired by Katie Price, the college coed flashing her breasts for a film maker during Spring break, and the waitress making her customer happy with chicken wings and a nice set of Hooters. It also explores the raunchy bad boys being paid handsomely to tell the world about their sexual exploits, online, on film, and in popular press bestsellers. Porn Chic also features thought-provoking artwork by Nicola Bockelmann, which focuses on the permeable border between pornography and mainstream culture and urges viewers to question everyday explicitness. ANNETTE LYNCH is a Professor of Textiles and Apparel and the Director of the Center for Violence Prevention at the University of Northern Iowa, USA.
2. Katie Price: From Topless Tabloid to Queen of Marketing 3. Girls Gone Wild: College Coeds Flash Their Goods 4. “Oh I wish I’d looked after me boobs”: Red Hatters (still) Covet Male Gaze 5. Midriff Marketing: Teaching Girls the Power of Sexy 6. Construction of Cyber Raunch Identity: The Private becomes Public 7. Hooters: Centerfolds for the Mainstream 8. Plastic Surgery: Molding Soft Porn Identity
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1. Porn Chic: The Raunch Erotic Ideal
UK October 2012 ∙ US December 2012 224 pages ∙ 14 bw illus 234 x 156mm / 9.2 x 6.1 inches PB 9781847886286 ∙ £19.99 / $39.95 HB 9781847886293 ∙ £55.00 / $99.95 Individual eBook 9781472520142 ∙ £19.99 / $30.00 Library eBook 9781472520135 ∙ £60.00 / 80.00 Series: Dress, Body, Culture Berg Publishers
9. The Unapologetic Bad Boy: Masculinity in the Millennium 10. Deconstructing the Icon: Feminist Responses to Porn Chic Bibliography Index
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