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A History of Visual Culture: Western Civilization from the 18th to the 21st Century Jane Kromm 9781845204921
SciFier: £42.99A 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... -
The Handbook of Visual Culture Ian Heywood (Lancaster University, UK) 9781847885739
SciFier: £196.99Visual culture has become one of the most dynamic fields of scholarship, a reflection of how the study of human culture increasingly requires distinctively visual ways of thinking and methods of... -
Japanese Fashion Designers: The Work and Influence of Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamotom, and Rei Kawakubo Professor Bonnie English (Late of Griffith University, Australia) 9781847883117
SciFier: £108.49Over the past 40 years, Japanese designers have led the way in aligning fashion with art and ideology, as well as addressing identity and social politics through dress. They have demonstrated that... -
Uniforms Exposed: From Conformity to Transgression Jennifer Craik (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) 9781859738047
SciFier: £32.99There is nothing uniform about wearing a uniform. This one article of clothing has arguably had a greater impact on the world than any other. From fascists to fashionistas, Uniforms Exposed looks at... -
Gender and German Cinema - Vol II: Feminist Interventions Sandra Frieden 9780854963232
SciFier: £155.49Volume I - Gender and Representation in New German CinemaVolume II - German Film History / German History on FilmInternational film has received some of its most original impulses from German film... -
The Englishness of English Dress Christopher Breward (National Galleries of Scotland, UK) 9781859735282
RRP: £38.99SciFier: £36.68Is there a peculiarly English 'look' and if so how does one define it? From the 'traditional' dress of the Victorian rural working class through to the contemporary collections of Vivienne Westwood... -
Mob Culture: Hidden Histories of the American Gangster Film Lee Grieveson 9781845203306
SciFier: £28.99The gangster is perhaps the most potent figure in American cinema. Yet film criticism has focused almost entirely on a few canonical films such as Little Caesar, The Public Enemy, and The Godfather... -
A History of Russian Cinema by Birgit Beumers
SciFier: £36.99Film emerged in pre-Revolutionary Russia to become the 'most important of all arts' for the new Bolshevik regime and its propaganda machine. The 1920s saw a flowering of film experimentation, notably... -
Contemporary Asian Cinema: Popular Culture in a Global Frame Tereska Ciecko Anne 9781845202378
SciFier: £33.99Asia produces more films than any other part of the world. With chapters on Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Korea, Mainland China,... -
The Latin American Fashion Reader Dr Regina Root 9781859738931
SciFier: £32.99Latin American fashion's recent gain in popularity can be seen most obviously in mass-market ranges throughout the industrialized West. From the tango-inspired dress of Argentina and guerrilla chic... -
The Berg Companion to Fashion Valerie Steele (Director and Chief Curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, USA) 9781847885920
SciFier: £176.99* An essential reference for students, curators and scholars of fashion, cultural studies, and the expanding range of disciplines that see fashion as imbued with meaning far beyond the material. *... -
Film: The Key Concepts Nitzan Ben-Shaul 9781845203665
SciFier: £24.49Film: The Key Concepts presents a coherent, clear and exciting overview of film theory for beginning readers. The book takes the reader through the often conflicting analyses that make up film... -
Fashioning the Body Politic: Dress, Gender, Citizenship Wendy Parkins 9781859735879
SciFier: £36.99With an afterword by Roger Griffin.Fashion is often thought of as a matter of personal taste, completely unconnected with the public domain of political life and citizenship. Overturning this... -
Identities Through Fashion: A Multidisciplinary Approach Ana Marta Gonzalez 9780857850577
SciFier: £123.99Fashion has become a fertile field of study for academics across disciplines, now that the rules, once tightly fixed, have been deconstructed. This volume brings together academics from various... -
Japanese Fashion: A Cultural History Toby Slade 9781847882523
SciFier: £34.99Japanese Fashion examines the entire sweep of Japanese clothing history, from the sophisticated fashion systems of late-Edo period kimonos to the present day, providing possible theories of how Japan... -
Fashioning Models: Image, Text and Industry Dr Joanne Entwistle 9781847881557
SciFier: £112.99The 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 fashion... -
Goth: Identity, Style and Subculture Paul Hodkinson 9781859736050
SciFier: £31.99Goths represent one of the most arresting, distinctive and enduring subcultures of recent times. The dedication of those involved to a lifestyle which, from the outside, may appear dark and sinister,... -
Reconstructing Italian Fashion: America and the Development of the Italian Fashion Industry Nicola White 9781859733417
SciFier: £36.99Despite its long eclipse by Parisian couture, Italian fashion is now celebrated globally for the quality of its tailoring, fabric and design. But an Italian label was not always a yardstick for... -
The Fashion Doll: From Bebe Jumeau to Barbie Juliette Peers 9781859737439
SciFier: £36.99Feminists have argued that the Barbie doll perpetuates unrealistic standards of feminine beauty and undermines the credibility of women - that her long, slender plastic limbs and tiny waist fetishize... -
Re-Orienting Fashion: The Globalization of Asian Dress Sandra Niessen 9781859735343
SciFier: £134.99When Hong Kong entrepreneur David Tang opened his Shanghai Tang boutique on New York's Madison Avenue, it was not an isolated example of the globalization of Asian fashion. Further evidence is... -
The Global Circulation of African Fashion Leslie W. Rabine 9781859735930
SciFier: £134.49Transnational movements of people, cultural objects, images and identities have played a vital role in creating an informal global network for African fashion - from clothing designers and tailors to... -
Fashion and Textiles: An Overview Jasbir Kaur 9781859738184
SciFier: £33.99This essential book provides the first comprehensive overview of the symbiotic relationship that exists between fashion and textiles. Because textiles represent a central ingredient of fashion (as... -
Film World: The Directors' Interviews Julie Rose 9781845204570
SciFier: £136.59Film World brings together key interviews with cinema's leading directors. The directors chosen represent many of the most influential film-makers of the last 50 years. All have been selected because... -
Italian Cinema Mary Wood 9781845201623
SciFier: £33.99Italian 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 history... -
Art Rules: Pierre Bourdieu and the Visual Arts Michael Grenfell 9781845202330
SciFier: £144.49Pierre Bourdieu is now recognized as one of the key contemporary critics of culture and the visual arts. Art Rules analyses Bourdieu's work on the visual arts to provide the first overview of his... -
The Hollywood Interviews John Flower 9781845204419
SciFier: £24.99"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... -
Art Rules: Pierre Bourdieu and the Visual Arts Michael Grenfell 9781845202347
SciFier: £35.99Pierre Bourdieu is now recognized as one of the key contemporary critics of culture and the visual arts. Art Rules analyses Bourdieu's work on the visual arts to provide the first overview of his... -
Quilting: The Fabric of Everyday Life Marybeth C. Stalp 9781845206550
SciFier: £34.99Quilting, once regarded as a traditional craft, has broken through the barriers of history, art and commerce to become a global phenomenon, international multi-billion dollar industry and means of... -
Fashion in Fiction: Text and Clothing in Literature, Film and Television Peter McNeil (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) 9781847883575
SciFier: £40.99Fashion 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... -
Chinese Fashion: From Mao to Now Juanjuan Wu 9781845207786
SciFier: £113.99How 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... -
American Cinema of the 1980s by Stephen Prince
SciFier: £26.99During the 1980s, American cinema underwent enormous transformations. Blockbusters like Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., and The Empire Strikes Back earned huge sums for the studios. At the same time,... -
Gender and German Cinema - Vol I: Feminist Interventions Sandra Frieden 9780854962433
SciFier: £43.99Volume I - Gender and Representation in New German CinemaVolume II - German Film History / German History on FilmInternational film has received some of its most original impulses from German film... -
Fashion Under the Occupation Miriam Kochan 9781859735480
SciFier: £36.99Before the outbreak of WWII, French fashion represented the very pinnacle of style, and French women the epitome of chic. At home and abroad, couturiers wealthy clients eagerly awaited the latest... -
The Textile Book Jasbir Kaur 9781859735077
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £96.69Textiles 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... -
Gender and German Cinema - Vol II: Feminist Interventions Sandra Frieden 9780854963249
SciFier: £43.99Volume I - Gender and Representation in New German CinemaVolume II - German Film History / German History on FilmInternational film has received some of its most original impulses from German film... -
Fashion and Class Rachel Worth (Arts University Bournemouth, UK) 9781847888167
SciFier: £97.99In 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... -
Japanese Fashion: A Cultural History Toby Slade 9781847882530
SciFier: £112.99Japanese Fashion examines the entire sweep of Japanese clothing history, from the sophisticated fashion systems of late-Edo period kimonos to the present day, providing possible theories of how Japan... -
Identities Through Fashion: A Multidisciplinary Approach Ana Marta Gonzalez 9780857850584
SciFier: £41.99Fashion has become a fertile field of study for academics across disciplines, now that the rules, once tightly fixed, have been deconstructed. This volume brings together academics from various... -
Fashion Foundations: Early Writings on Fashion and Dress Kim K. P. Johnson (University of Minnesota, USA) 9781859736142
SciFier: £134.49Although it can be difficult to think of fashion in anything other than a contemporary context, as a concept it is hardly new. Costume historians trace the birth of fashion back to the thirteenth... -
The Japanese Revolution in Paris Fashion Yuniya Kawamura 9781859738108
SciFier: £134.49Despite 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...