Description
Fashion on Television provides a comprehensive critical examination of the intersection between fashion, television and celebrity culture. The book brings together theoretical approaches to the symbolic force of television and fashion-forward programming on a global scale.
Examining case studies such as Sex and the City, Gossip Girl, Ugly Betty and Mad Men, the book examines how TV has made style icons out of leading actresses and fashion-conscious consumers out of audiences. Using a varied methodology, including textual and contextual analysis, this study explores the cultural uses of onscreen fashion at the level of industry, text and intertext.
Fashion on Television is essential reading for those seeking to understand the cultural function of costume in a television context. Written accessibly with a multi-disciplinary approach, it will appeal to students and scholars from film and media, fashion and cultural studies, to sociology and women's studies.
Featuring original and contemporary case studies, this is a unique academic inquiry into costume and fashion on and off the small screen.
About the Author
Helen Warner is Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at University of East Anglia, UK.
Reviews
This book provides a comprehensive critical examination of the intersection between fashion, television and celebrity culture. Examining case studies such as Sex and the City, Gossip Girl, Ugly Betty and Mad Men, the book examines how TV has made style icons out of leading actresses and fashion-conscious consumers out of audiences. * Costume Society of America *
Book Information
ISBN 9780857854407
Author Helen Warner
Format Hardback
Page Count 192
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 476g
