Accessorizing the body [[electronic resource] ] : habits of being i / / Cristina Giorcelli and Paula Rabinowitz, editors

• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
• Disciplina: 746.9/2
• Soggetto topico: Dress accessories - History; Fashion design - History; Fashion designers - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: GiorcelliCristina RabinowitzPaula
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: No frills, no-body, nobody / Manuela Fraire -- The cult of femininity / Micol Fontana -- Fashion's model bodies: a genealogy / Paola Colaiacomo -- Wearing the body over the dress: Sonia Delaunay's fashionable clothes / Christina Giorcelli -- Futurist accessories / Franca Zoccoli -- Coco, Zelda, Sara, Daisy and Nicole: accessories for new ways of being a woman / Martha Banta -- Precious objects: Laura Riding, her tiara, and the Petrarchan muse / Becky Peterson -- Spanish women's clothing during the long post-civil war period / Giuliana Di Febo -- The yellow star accessorized: ironic discourse in fatelessness by Imre Kertesz / Zsófia Bán -- Terra Divisa/Terra Divina: (T/E/A/R) / Maria Damon -- Black hattitude / Jeffrey C. Stewart -- Barbara Stanwych's anklet: the other shoe / Paula Rabinowitz -- The cinematic jewel: fetishizing the goods / Vito Zagarrio -- Enchanted sandals: Italian shoes and the post-world war II international scene / Vittoria C. Caratozzolo.
• Sommario/riassunto: The first in the four-part series Habits of Being, charting the social, cultural, and political expression of clothing as seen on the street and in museums, in films and literature, and in advertisements and magazines, this volume features a close-up focus on accessoriesùthe shoe, the hat, the necklaceùintimately connected to the body. These essays, most of which have appeared in the cutting-edge Italian series Abito e Identita, offer new theoretical and historical takes on the role of clothing, dress, and accessories in the construction of the modern subject. With contributions by leading sch
• Titolo autorizzato: Accessorizing the body
• ISBN: 1-4529-4633-7; 0-8166-7668-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457620403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Habits of being ; ; 1.