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Fashion in Fiction: Text and Clothing in Literature, Film and Television

Author(s): Peter McNeil (Editor), Vicki Karaminas (Editor), Catherine Cole (Editor)

Publisher: Berg Publishers
Publication Date: May 1, 2009
Edition: Illustrated
Language: English
Print length: 224 pages
ISBN-10: 1847883575
ISBN-13: 9781847883575

Book Description

Fashion in Fiction examines the ways in which dress 'performs' in a wide range of contemporary and historical literary texts. Essays by North American, European and Australian scholars explore the function of clothing within fictional narratives, including those of film, television and advertising. The book provides a groundbreaking examination of the interconnected worlds of fashion and words, providing perspectives from socio-cultural, historical and theoretical readings of fashion and text-based communication.Covering a variety of genres and periods, Fashion in Fiction analyses fashion's role within a range of creative media, exploring the many ways that dress communicates, disrupts and modulates meaning across different cultures and contexts.

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About the Author

Peter McNeil is Distinguished Professor in Design History at University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. His many books include Pretty Gentlemen: Macaroni Men and the Eighteenth-century Fashion World (2018), Luxury: A Rich History (2016), The Fashion History Reader: Global Perspectives (2010), and Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers (2006)

Vicki Karaminas is Professor of Fashion and Director of Doctoral Studies in the School of Design, Massey University, New Zealand, and Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre of Visual Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Catherine Cole is a professor of Creative Writing at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and author of The Poet who Forgot, The Grave at Thy Lu, Dry Dock, Skin Deep, Private Dicks and Fiesty Chicks: An Interrogation of Crime Fiction.

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