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Author Calefato, Patrizia.

Uniform Title Moda, corpo, mito. English
Title The clothed body / Patrizia Calefato ; English translation by Lisa Adams.

Imprint Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Berg, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  391 C128c 2004    ---  Available
Description vii, 167 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Dress, body, culture, 1360-466X
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-164) and index.
Contents Dress, language and communication -- Dress and social identity -- Style and styles between fashion and the grotesque -- Taste between common sense and received meaning -- Everyday models -- The face and the gaze -- Degree zero of fashion and the body : the model, the nude and the doll -- Intertextual strategies and contemporary mythology -- Fashion and cinema -- Wearing black -- Mass fashion : the role of fashion in music -- Time -- Fashion intertexts -- Objects.
Subject Clothing and dress -- Social aspects.
Fashion -- Social aspects.
Human body -- Social aspects.
ISBN 1859738052 (pbk.)
1859738001 (cloth)

 
    
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