| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 186 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Contextualizing fashion and war within popular culture / Jennifer Craik -- Overview / Denise N. Rall -- Representation of female wartime bravery in Australia's Wanda the war girl and Jane at war from the UK / Jane Chapman -- Fashionable fascism : cinematic images of the Nazi before and after 9/11 / Kylee M. Hartman-Warren -- Branding the muscled male body as military costume / Heather Smith and Richard Gehrmann -- In the service of clothes : Elsa Schiaparelli and the war experience / Annita Boyd -- Discipline of appearance : military style and Australian flight hostess uniforms 1930-1964 / Prudence Black -- Models, medals, and the use of military emblems in fashion / Amanda Laugesen -- Battle dressed : clothing the criminal, or the horror of the 'hoodie' in Britain / Joanne Turney -- Dutch wax and display : London and the art of Yinka Shonibare / Davinia Gregory -- Costume and conquest : introducing a proximity framework for post-war impacts on textile and fashion / Denise N. Rall -- Afterword: Military in contemporary fashion / Denise N. Rall. |
| Summary |
"Aside from the occasional nod to epaulettes or use of camouflage, war and fashion seem to be strange partners. Not so, argue the contributors to this book, who connect military industrial practices as well as military dress to textile and clothing in new ways. For instance, the book includes a series of commentaries on the impact of military dress in the airline industry, in illustrated wartime comics, and even considers today's muscled soldier's body as a new type of uniform. Elsewhere, the effects of conquest introduce a new set of postcolonial aesthetics as military and colonial regimes disrupt local textile production and garment making. In another chapter, it is argued that textiles and fashion are important because they reflect a core practice, one that bridges textile artists and designers in an expressive, creative, and deeply physical way to matters of cultural significance. And the book concludes by calling the very mode of 'military chic' into ethical question. The premier text to illustrate the impact of war on textiles, bodies, costume, art, and design, Fashion & War in Popular Culture will be warmly welcomed by scholars of fashion design and theory, historians of fashion, and those interested in theories of warfare and military science"--Publisher's website. |
| Biography |
Dr Denise N. Rail holds a Ph.D. in Internet Studies from Southern Cross University in Lismore, NSW, Australia, as well as a Masters in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her eclectic research includes publications on textiles, fashion and wearable art, as well as how technology and the World Wide Web impacts women's roles in computing, domestic work, and craft and social protest. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Clothing and dress -- Social aspects.
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Clothing and dress -- Social aspects. |
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War and society.
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War and society. |
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Fashion -- Social aspects.
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Fashion -- Social aspects. |
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Art and war.
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Art and war. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Rall, Denise N., editor.
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| Added Title |
Fashion and war in popular culture |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Fashion & war in popular culture. Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : Intellect, 2014 1841507512 (OCoLC)859446983 |
| ISBN |
9781783202942 (electronic book) |
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1783202947 (electronic book) |
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9781783202935 |
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1783202939 |
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9781841507514 (print) |
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1841507512 (print) |
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