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The Clothed Body: Dress, Body, Culture

Autor Patrizia Calefato Traducere de Lisa Adams
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 2004
Dress is everywhere imbued with symbols that reflect different meanings in different contexts. This compelling book convincingly demonstrates how clothing is analogous to a working language and is similarly underpinned by deeper meanings and philosophies.From tattoos and mini-skirts, to skin decoration, makeup and hair, Calefato unpicks the multiple functions of modern dress. Exploring intriguing commonalities - for example, between tattooed Egyptian mummies of 2000 BC and modern subcultural styles - Calefato considers the psychological, cultural, spiritual and symbolic significances at play in what she aptly labels 'body cartography'. What we wear is a vehicle for the (often contentious) expression of politics, gender and identity, placing clothing at the root of a complex set of messages, many of which are paradoxical. Clothing may, for example, liberate through the pleasures of masquerade and at the same time 'cage' or control the body. The Clothed Body shows how semiotics can provide a convincing template for understanding dress in a wide range of contexts and will be essential reading for anyone interested in the meaning of what we wear.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781859738054
ISBN-10: 1859738052
Pagini: 176
Ilustrații: 13 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Berg Publishers
Seria Dress, Body, Culture

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Also available in hardback, 9781859738009 £50.00 (June, 2004)

Notă biografică

Patrizia Calefato is Associate Professor, Dipartimento di Pratiche Linguistiche e Analisi di Testi, Universit degli Studi di Bari. Translated from the Italian by Lisa Adams

Cuprins

INTRODUCTIONCHAPTER 1 DRESS, LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATIONCHAPTER 2 DRESS AND SOCIAL IDENTITYCHAPTER 3 STYLE AND STYLES BETWEEN FASHION AND THE GROTESQUECHAPTER 4 TASTE BETWEEN COMMON SENSE AND RECEIVED MEANINGCHAPTER 5 WRITING THE BODYCHAPTER 6 MENS BODIES, WOMENS BODIESCHAPTER 7 EVERYDAY MODELSCHAPTER 8 THE FACE AND THE GAZECHAPTER 9 DEGREE ZERO OF FASHION AND THE BODY: THE MODEL, THE NUDE, AND THE DOLLCHAPTER 10 FASHION AND THE WORLDCHAPTER 11 FASHION AND CINEMACHAPTER 12 WEARING BLACKCHAPTER 13 FASHION AND MUSICCHAPTER 14 TIMECHAPTER 15 FASHION INTERTEXTSCHAPTER 16 OBJECTS

Recenzii

'If you like semitoics, you will love this....The author provides vivid examples to ponder from history, from popular culture, especially from film, and from her own personal experience and observation.'Textiles Magazine