{"product_id":"fashion-performance-and-performativity-9781350106192","title":"Fashion Performance and Performativity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the first comprehensive study of the interactions between fashion, performance and performativity, a group of international experts explore fashion as the ideal complex space'  or, in other words, the ideal space where performance and performativity come together, according to the works of seminal theorists Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Andrew Parker.Bringing together western and non-western, historical and contemporary case studies and theories, the book explores the magazines, photography, exhibitions, global colonial divides, digital media, and more, which have become key markers of the fashion industry as we know it today.Using existing literature as a springboard and incorporating perspectives from fashion studies, art history, media studies and gender studies, as well as from artists and practitioners, \u003ci\u003eFashion, Performance, and Performativity\u003c\/i\u003e is an innovative and essential work for students, scholars and practitioners across multiple disciplines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFashion, Performance, and Performativity\u003c\/i\u003e is one of those rare collections that provide radical new directions for a discipline. Kollnitz and Pecorari and their contributors show how fashion is an affective agent, revitalizing debates about the use and meaning of clothing in society. This timely book provides fashion scholars with new tools for analyzing sartorial activism. * Christopher Breward, Director, National Museums Scotland *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations Acknowledgements  Introduction Andrea Kollnitz and Marco Pecorari  \u003ci\u003eTransformations and Translations\u003c\/i\u003e 1. Leigh Bowery and Judith Butler: Between Performance and Performativity Francesca Granata  2. The Emirati burqa. ‘An Intimate Object’ from a Cultural, Historical and Contemporary Art Perspective.  Karima Al Shomely  3. Written In The Voice: Tommy Roberts and the Oral History of British Fashion – a Case Study in Vocality, the Narratable Self, and Memory. Paul Jobling   \u003ci\u003eStages and Places\u003c\/i\u003e 4. In Store(d) Behaviors: Tsuneko Taniuchi’s Poetics of Clothed Performance. Emmanuel Cohen  5. The Fashioned Female Body, Performativity and the Bare Flaneuse.  Jacki Willson  6. Colonies and Clothing: The Uses of Fashion in Interwar France and West Africa. Victoria L. Rovine  7. From Lil Miquela to Shudu: Digital Slavery and the 21st-Century Racialized Performance of Identity Politics. Jonathan Michael Square  \u003ci\u003eModels and Poses\u003c\/i\u003e 8. The Utopian ‘No-Place’ of the Fashion Photograph. Karen de Perthuis  9. Italian Fashion Models. Rethinking the Discourse on National Identity. Gabriele Monti  10. Films with A Venegance: Lesbian Desire and Hyper-Violence in the Fashion Film, 2009-2012. Louise Wallenberg  11. Male Gender Performance and Regency Fashion Writing. Royce Mahawatte  List of Contributors Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529217646935,"sku":"9781350106192","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350106192.jpg?v=1731874757","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fashion-performance-and-performativity-9781350106192","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}