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“philippa nesbitt”

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  • Fashion, Identity, Image

    by Paul Jobling, Philippa Nesbitt, Angelene Wong ...
    How has the fashion industry responded to turn-of-the-millennium non-binary identities? Do they have a supportive or exploitative relationship with queer, trans and ageing subjects? Fashion, Identity, Imageunpacks these questions and many more in relation to clothing and representation, identity and body politics in British, European and American culture between 1990 and 2020.Jobling, Nesbitt and ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    Exploring Participatory Culture

    by Henry Jenkins ...
    Brings together the highlights of a decade and a half of groundbreaking research into the cultural life of media consumersHenry Jenkins's pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represent the vanguard of a new relationship with mass media. Though ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • In a Queer Time and Place

    Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives

    by Judith Halberstam ...
    Series Book 3 - Sexual Cultures
    In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. She presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative forms’especially female and trans-masculinities as they exist within subcultures, and are ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • Erotic Ambiguities

    The Female Nude in Art

    by Helen McDonald ...
    Art is always ambiguous. When it involves the female body it can also be erotic. Erotic Ambiguities is a study of how contemporary women artists have reconceptualised the figure of the female nude. Helen McDonald shows how, over the past thirty years, artists have employed the idea of ambiguity to dismantle the exclusive, classical ideal enshrined in the figure of the nude, and how they have ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Gender and the Media

    by Rosalind Gill ...
    Written in a clear and accessible style, with lots of examples from Anglo-American media, Gender and the Media offers a critical introduction to the study of gender in the media, and an up-to-date assessment of the key issues and debates.Eschewing a straightforwardly positive or negative assessment the book explores the contradictory character of contemporary gender representations, where ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Media, Gender and Identity

    An Introduction

    by David Gauntlett ...
    Popular media present a vast array of stories about women and men. What impact do these images and ideas have on people’s identities?The new edition of Media, Gender and Identity is a highly readable introduction to the relationship between media and gender identities today. Fully revised and updated, including new case studies and a new chapter, it considers a wide range of research and provides ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Fashion Theory

    An Introduction

    by Malcolm Barnard ...
    Fashion is both big business and big news. From models’ eating disorders and sweated labour to the glamour of a new season's trends, statements and arguments about fashion and the fashion industry can be found in every newspaper, consumer website and fashion blog. Books which define, analyse and explain the nature, production and consumption of fashion in terms of one theory or another abound. But ... Read more

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  • Subcultures

    Cultural Histories and Social Practice

    by Ken Gelder ...
    This book presents a cultural history of subcultures, covering a remarkable range of subcultural forms and practices. It begins with London’s ‘Elizabethan underworld’, taking the rogue and vagabond as subcultural prototypes: the basis for Marx’s later view of subcultures as the lumpenproletariat, and Henry Mayhew’s view of subcultures as ‘those that will not work’. Subcultures are always in some ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Discographies

    Dance, Music, Culture and the Politics of Sound

    by Jeremy Gilbert, Ewan Pearson ...
    Experiencing disco, hip hop, house, techno, drum 'n' bass and garage, Discographies plots a course through the transatlantic dance scene of the last last twenty-five years. It discusses the problems posed by contemporary dance culture of both academic and cultural study and finds these origins in the history of opposition to music as a source of sensory pleasure.Discussing such issues as ... Read more

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  • Lady Gaga and Popular Music

    Performing Gender, Fashion, and Culture

    Edited by Martin Iddon, Melanie Marshall ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Popular Music
    This book is a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary examination of the music and figure of Lady Gaga, combining approaches from scholars in cultural studies, art, fashion, and music. It represents one of the first scholarly volumes devoted to Lady Gaga, who has become, over a few short years, central to both popular (and, indeed, populist) as well as more scholarly thought in these areas and who, the ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Experimental Fashion

    Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body

    by Professor Francesca Granata ...
    Series series Dress Cultures
    Shortlisted for the Millia Davenport Publication AwardExperimental Fashion traces the proliferation of the grotesque and carnivalesque within contemporary fashion and the close relation between fashion and performance art, from Lady Gaga's raw meat dress to Leigh Bowery's performance style. The book examines the designers and performance artists at the turn of the twenty-first century whose work ... Read more

    $37.09 CAD

  • Body Studies: The Basics

    by Niall Richardson, Adam Locks ...
    Series series The Basics
    Consideration of the body as a subject for study has increased in recent years with new technologies, forms of modification, debates about obesity and issues of age being brought into focus by the media. Drawing on contemporary culture, Body Studies: The Basics introduces readers to the key concerns and debates surrounding the study of the sociological body, cutting across disciplines to cover ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD