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Visual Research Methods in Fashion Professor Julia Gaimster (London College of Fashion) 9781847883810
SciFier: £45.99The ability to analyze and interpret visual information is essential in fashion. However, students tend to struggle with the concept of visual research, as well as with the application of that... -
Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion Dr Geraldine Biddle-Perry (Central St Martins, London, UK) 9781845207922
SciFier: £40.99Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion explores the social importance of hair, wherever it grows, explaining the cultural significance of hair and hairiness, and presenting a new critical engagement with... -
A History of Visual Culture: Western Civilization from the 18th to the 21st Century Jane Kromm 9781845204938
SciFier: £54.99A History of Visual Culture is a history of ideas. The recent explosion of interest in visual culture suggests the phenomenon is very recent. But visual culture has a history. Knowledge began to be... -
Beads and Bead Makers: Gender, Material Culture and Meaning Lidia D. Sciama 9781859739952
SciFier: £36.99Beads have been used since antiquity, not only to dress the body, but as measures of value in economic and ritual exchanges. Their popularity has never waned, and in recent years their trade has... -
The Hollywood Interviews John Flower 9781845204402
SciFier: £103.99"There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors." Francois Truffaut's famous statement defined a new way of seeing cinema as an art form and its directors as artists or auteurs. The... -
The Banham Lectures by Jeremy Aynsley (University of Brighton, UK)
SciFier: £85.19The Banham Lectures presents a series of essays by leading critics on art, design, architecture and culture. All are inspired by the revolutionary work of Reyner Banham, who continues to be one of... -
Fashion and Celebrity Culture Pamela Church Gibson 9781847883865
SciFier: £30.99The interrelationship between fashion and celebrity is now a salient and pervasive feature of the media world. This accessible text presents the first in-depth study of the phenomenon, assessing the... -
Cotton by Professor Beverly Lemire
SciFier: £114.99This book explores the fascinating history and present-day practices associated with cotton. This is a story of commercial and cultural enterprise, of the ties and tensions between East and West, of... -
Chinese Fashion: From Mao to Now Juanjuan Wu 9781845207793
SciFier: £37.99How has fashion mirrored the social and cultural changes that have taken place in modern China? To what extent has fashion contributed to those changes? This book provides the first comprehensive... -
Fashion and the Consumer Jennifer Yurchisin 9781845207984
SciFier: £34.99This text introduces important concepts related to the consumption of fashion and clothing to beginning students. Designed to support teaching and learning, this book looks at the cultural and... -
The Japanese Revolution in Paris Fashion by Yuniya Kawamura (Fashion Institute of Technology, USA)
SciFier: £31.99Despite recent challenges from New York, London and Milan, Paris is renowned as the greatest fashion capital in the world. Its distinctive categorization of haute couture, demi-couture, and... -
Film Propaganda in Britain and Nazi Germany: World War II Cinema Prof Jo Fox (Durham University, UK) 9781859738962
SciFier: £35.99Propaganda - so crucial to winning the battle of hearts and minds in warfare - witnessed a transformation during World War II, when film was fast becoming the most popular form of entertainment. In... -
The Textile Book Jasbir Kaur 9781859735121
SciFier: £33.99Textiles are central to our lives and are at the heart of the world's largest industries. In recent years there has been a dynamic shift in attitudes toward textiles, fuelled in part by explosive... -
Surrealism and Cinema Michael Richardson 9781845202262
SciFier: £31.99Surrealism has long been recognised as having made a major contribution to film theory and practice, and many contemporary film-makers acknowledge its influence. Most of the critical literature,... -
When Clothes Become Fashion: Design and Innovation Systems Ingrid Loschek 9781847883674
SciFier: £112.99When, how and why do clothes become fashion? Fashion is more than mere clothing. It is a moment of invention, a distillation of desire, a reflection of a zeitgeist. It is also economically relevant... -
When Clothes Become Fashion: Design and Innovation Systems Ingrid Loschek 9781847883667
SciFier: £34.99When, how and why do clothes become fashion? Fashion is more than mere clothing. It is a moment of invention, a distillation of desire, a reflection of a zeitgeist. It is also a business relying on... -
Mallarme on Fashion: A Translation of the Fashion Magazine La Derniere Mode, with Commentary A. M. Cain 9781859737231
SciFier: £36.99In the later months of 1874, the great French poet, Stephane Mallarme, undertook a highly idiosyncratic project - the publication of a fashion magazine (La Derniere Mode) that he almost... -
Bound to Please: A History of the Victorian Corset Leigh Summers 9781859735107
SciFier: £38.99Corsets, and the corseted body, have been fetishized, mythologized, romanticized. This Victorian icon has inspired more passionate debate than any other article of clothing. As a means of body... -
Fashion and Music Janice Miller 9781847884138
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £29.99The relationship between popular music and fashion has been a culturally significant one since the 1950s, and this book explores how music and musicians play a key role in the shaping of identity,... -
Games and Gaming by Larissa Hjorth
SciFier: £35.99The computer games industry has rapidly matured. Once a preoccupation only of young technophiles, games are now one of the dominant forms of global popular culture. From consoles such as Nintendo Wii... -
American Cinema of the 1940s: Themes and Variations Professor Wheeler Winston Dixon (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA) 9781845204341
SciFier: £78.49The 1940s was a watershed decade for American cinema and the nation. At the start of the decade, Hollywood - shaking off the Depression - launched an unprecedented wave of production, generating some... -
Fashion and Class Rachel Worth (Arts University Bournemouth, UK) 9781847888150
SciFier: £32.46In what ways do changing notions of social class correspond with key developments in the history of fashion? Focusing on examples ranging from 18th-century Britain to aspects of the global fashion... -
American Science Fiction Film and Television Lincoln Geraghty 9781845207960
SciFier: £28.99American Science Fiction Film and Television presents a critical history of late 20th Century SF together with an analysis of the cultural and thematic concerns of this popular genre. Science fiction... -
The Culture of Knitting Joanne Turney (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK) 9781845205911
SciFier: £113.99From booties and scarves to art and fashion, The Culture of Knitting addresses knitting as art, craft, design, fashion and performance, and as an aspect of the everyday. Drawing on a variety of... -
The Culture of Knitting Joanne Turney (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK) 9781845205928
SciFier: £37.99From booties and scarves to art and fashion, The Culture of Knitting addresses knitting as art, craft, design, fashion and performance, and as an aspect of the everyday. Drawing on a variety of... -
Victorian Fashion Accessories Ariel Beaujot 9781847886835
SciFier: £113.99In Victorian England, women's accessories were always much more than incidental finishing touches to their elaborate dress. Accessories helped women to fashion their identities.Victorian Fashion... -
The Anatomy of Fashion: Dressing the Body from the Renaissance to Today Susan J. Vincent (Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York, UK) 9781845207649
SciFier: £37.99Clothes take the ordinary human body and fashion it into something remarkable. Born to the same anatomical legacy, each generation has used garments to shape itself in the image of its own particular... -
Twentieth-Century American Fashion Patricia Cunningham 9781845200732
SciFier: £33.99Americans began the twentieth century standing in Europe's sartorial shadow, yet ended by outfitting the world in blue jeans, T-shirts and sneakers. How did this come about? What changes in American... -
Cinema: The Archaeology of Film and the Memory of a Century Jean-Luc Godard 9781845201968
SciFier: £111.39Cinema is quite simply a unique book from one of the most influential film-makers in the history of cinema. Here, Jean-Luc Godard looks back on a century of film as well as his own work and career in... -
The Swimsuit: Fashion from Poolside to Catwalk Christine Schmidt 9780857851239
SciFier: £34.99The Swimsuit: Fashion from Poolside to Catwalk documents the modern swimsuit's trajectory from men's underwear and circus/performance wear to its unique niche in world fashion. It emphasizes the... -
Changing Fashion: A Critical Introduction to Trend Analysis and Meaning Annette Lynch 9781845203900
SciFier: £31.99Changing trends in fashion have always reflected large-scale social and cultural changes. Changing Fashion presents for the first time a multi-disciplinary approach to examining fashion change,... -
Fashioning Models: Image, Text and Industry Dr Joanne Entwistle 9781847881540
SciFier: £37.99The fashion model's hold on popular consciousness is undeniable. How did models emerge as such powerful icons in modern consumer culture? This volume brings together cutting-edge articles on... -
Felt Willow Mullins 9781845204396
SciFier: £44.99From nomads' tents to poodle skirts, from car parts to Christmas tree ornaments, felt is one of the world's oldest and most understated textiles. Felt has developed simultaneously in multiple... -
Italian Cinema Mary Wood 9781845201616
RRP: £120.00SciFier: £103.69Italian Cinema presents an overview and analysis of one of the most prolific and influential of national cinemas. Italian film has always drawn on a wide range of popular themes - from ancient... -
American Cinema of the 1940s: Themes and Variations Professor Wheeler Winston Dixon (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA) 9781845204358
SciFier: £28.99The 1940s was a watershed decade for American cinema and the nation. At the start of the decade, Hollywood - shaking off the Depression - launched an unprecedented wave of production, generating some... -
Victorian Fashion Accessories Ariel Beaujot 9781847886828
SciFier: £37.99In Victorian England, women's accessories were always much more than incidental finishing touches to their elaborate dress. Accessories helped women to fashion their identities.Victorian Fashion... -
Postcards from the Cinema by Paul Grant
SciFier: £34.99Postcards from the Cinema is the book Serge Daney, one of the greatest of film critics, never wrote. It is based around an interview that was to be the starting point for a book, a project cut short... -
Through the Wardrobe: Women's Relationships with Their Clothes Maura Banim 9781859733882
SciFier: £36.99Relating to clothes is a fundamental experience in the lives of most Western women. Even when choice is fraught with ambivalence, clothing matters. From considerations about dressing for success, to... -
Visions of England: Class and Culture in Contemporary Cinema Paul Dave 9781845202934
SciFier: £33.99Visions of England is a provocative and original exploration of Englishness, in particular English class, in contemporary cinema. Class has been a central part, whether consciously or not, of much... -
Textile Futures: Fashion, Design and Technology Bradley Quinn 9781845208080
SciFier: £40.99Textiles connect a variety of practices and traditions, ranging from the refined couture garments of Parisian fashion to the high-tech filaments strong enough to hoist a satellite into space...