| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 219 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Eugenia Paulicelli and Hazel Clark -- From potlatch to Wal-Mart: courtly and capitalist hierarchies through dress / Jane Schneider -- Dressing the nation: Indian cinema costume and the making of a national fashion, 1947-1957 / Rachel Tu -- Made in America: Paris, New York, and postwar fashion photography / Helena C. Ribeiro -- Framing the self, staging identity: clothing and Italian style in the films of Michelangelo Antonioni (1950-1964) / Eugenia Paulicelli -- The art of dressing: body, gender, and discourse on fashion in Soviet Russia in the 1950s and 1960s / Olga Gurova -- Fashioning appropriate youth in 1990s Vietnam / Ann Marie Leshkowich -- Youth, gender, and secondhand clothing in Lusaka, Zambia: local and global styles / Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Fashion design and technologies in a global context / Michiel Scheffer -- Fabricating Greekness: from fustanella to the glossy page / Michael Skafidas -- Fashion Brazil: South American style, culture, and industry / Valéria Brandini -- Fashioning "China style" in the twenty-first century / Hazel Clark -- From factories to fashion: an intern's experience of New York as a global fashion capital / Christina H. Moon. |
| Summary |
The Fabric of Cultures examines the impact of fashion as a manufacturing industry and as a culture industry that shapes identities of nations and cities in a cross-cultural perspective and within a global framework. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Clothing and dress -- Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies.
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| Subject |
Fashion -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Fashion -- Social aspects. |
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Globalization -- Social aspects.
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Globalization -- Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Paulicelli, Eugenia, 1958-
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Clark, Hazel.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fabric of cultures. London ; New York : Routledge, 2009 0415775426 9780415775427 (DLC) 2008019120 (OCoLC)226389450 |
| ISBN |
9780203869024 (electronic book) |
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0203869028 (electronic book) |
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0415775426 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
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9780415775427 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
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0415775434 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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9780415775434 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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