Fashion As Cultural Translation - Signs, Images, Narratives

The book deals with fashion as a form of visual culture embodied through signs. It reproduces itself with a pattern based on the semiotic network of places, social practices and forms of imagery.

List of contents

Introduction: Fashion as Cultural Translation in the Hyperconnected World; Supplement to the Introduction: Fashion, the Hyperconnected World and Coronavirus; 1. Time; 2. Spaces; 3. Fashion as Cultural Tradition: Italian Style; 4. Fashion as Cultural Translation; 5. Clothed Bodies; 6. The Body as Text; 7. Humans and Beyond; 8. Fashion and the 'Second Nature'; 9. Fashion, Communication and Converging Media; 10. Fashion Narratives in Visual Culture; Conclusions: Fashion as an Idea about the Future; References; Index.

About the author

Patrizia Calefato is Professor at the Università degli studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy, where she teaches sociology of culture and communication.

Product details

• Authors: Patrizia Calefato, Calefato Patrizia
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781785272424
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-242-4
• No. of pages: 158
• Series: Anthem Studies in Fashion, Dress and Visual Cultures
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Fashion & society, Cultural studies: dress and society, literary criticism; social science