Fashion on Television: Identity and Celebrity Culture

ISBN-13: 9780857854414 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 200 str.

Helen Warner

Opis

Fashion on Television provides a comprehensive critical examination of the intersection between fashion, television and celebrity culture. The book brings together theoretical approaches to the symbolic force of television and fashion-forward programming on a global scale.Examining case studies such as Sex and the City, Gossip Girl, Ugly Betty and Mad Men, the book examines how TV has made style icons out of leading actresses and fashion-conscious consumers out of audiences. Using a varied methodology, including textual and contextual analysis, this study explores the cultural uses of onscreen fashion at the level of industry, text and intertext.Fashion on Television is essential reading for those seeking to understand the cultural function of costume in a television context. Written accessibly with a multi-disciplinary approach, it will appeal to students and scholars from film and media, fashion and cultural studies, to sociology and women's studies.

Recenzje

This book is an incredibly important and timely contribution to the existing work on fashion theory and I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in not only fashion, but also television costume and screen cultures more generally. Warner presents a clear and convincing account of why fashion on television is important using a range of contemporary case studies that make this serious and scholarly book entertaining and accessible. Janice Miller, University of the Arts London, UK

Spis treści

Foreword by Pamela Church Gibson, Reader in Historical and Cultural Studies, London College of Fashion 1 Introduction: Approaching Fashion, Identity and Celebrity Culture PART I: Production Cultures and Industry Explanations of Contemporary Fashion Television2 The Place of Fashion Television in Cinema History: Industrial Discourse and Cultural Legitimacy 3 Costume Design, Practices and Production Cultures PART II: Textual Approaches to Fashion, Costume and Narrative4 Fashion, Costume and Narrative Tropes in TV Drama 5 Teen Fashion: Youth and Identity in Popular Teen Dramas 6 Fashioning the Past: Gender, Nostalgia and Excess in 'Quality' Period Drama PART III: Conceptualising Fashion and Celebrity Culture7 Fashioning Celebrity: Class, Tastemaking and Cultural Intermediaries8 Consuming Masculinity: Gender, Fashion and TV Celebrity9 Locating the Real: America Ferrera, Fashion, Ethnicity and Authenticity10 ConclusionBibliographyNotesIndex

O autorze

Helen Warner is Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at University of East Anglia, UK.