| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 177 pages) : illustrations |
| Summary |
"Cool Shades provides the first in-depth exploration of the enduring appeal of sunglasses in visual culture, both historically and today. Ubiquitous in fashion, advertising, film and graphic design, sunglasses are the ultimate signifier of 'cool' in mass culture; a powerful attribute pervading much fashion and pop cultural imagery which has received little scholarly attention until now. Accessible and highly engaging, this book offers an original history of how sunglasses became a fashion accessory in the early twentieth century, and addresses the complex variety of meanings they have the power to articulate, through associations with vision, light, glamour, darkness, fashion, speed and technology in the context of modernity. Cool Shades will be of great interest to students of fashion, design, visual and material culture, cultural studies and sociology, as well as general readers fascinated by this iconic fashion staple"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index. |
| Contents |
""FC ""; ""Half title ""; ""Title ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Contents ""; ""List of captions ""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""Quote ""; ""1 Introduction�why write a book about sunglasses? ""; ""2 Modernity�an onslaught on the eyes ""; ""3 Seeing the blur�perception, cool, and mechanized speed (1910�present) "" |
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""4 Seeing the cyborg�eye-shading, cool, and the hi-tech body (1910�present) """"5 Seeing in the light�“sun�glasses, modern glamor, cool, and celebrity (1920s�present) ""; ""6 Seeing in the dark�sunglasses and “outsider� cool (1940s�present) "" |
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""7 Heading for the shade�the spread of outsider cool (1950s�present) """"8 Seeing in the “eclipse��sunglasses, cool and the absence of meaning (late 1950s�present) ""; ""9 Sunglasses and cool�conclusions ""; ""References ""; ""Index "" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sunglasses.
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Fashion.
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Popular culture -- History -- 20th century.
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sunglasses. |
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Beauty & Grooming. |
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Fashion |
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Popular culture |
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Sunglasses |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gill-Brown, Vanessa, 1970- Cool shades. London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury, 2015 9780857854445 (DLC) 2014021549 (OCoLC)858353426 |
| ISBN |
9780857854636 (electronic bk.) |
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0857854631 (electronic bk.) |
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9781474232388 (ebk ; Bloomsbury) |
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1474232388 |
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9780857854452 (paperback) |
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0857854453 (paperback) |
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9780857854445 (hardback) |
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0857854445 (hardback) |
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9780857854643 (ePub) |
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