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Fashioning models : image, text, and industry /

Contributor(s): Publication details: London ; New York : Berg, 2012.Edition: English edDescription: xv, 222 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780857853103
  • 0857853104
  • 9780857853110
  • 0857853112
  • 9781847881557
  • 1847881556
  • 9781847881540
  • 1847881548
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Contents:
Introduction / Joanne Entwistle and Elizabeth Wissinger -- Models as brands: critical thinking about bodies and images / Joanne Entwistle and Don Slater -- Part I : From artist's model to the 'natural girl': containing sexuality in early-twentieth-century modelling / Elspeth H. Brown -- "Giving coloured sisters a superficial equality': re-modelling African American womanhood in early postwar America / Laila Haidarali -- Fashion modelling in Australia / Margaret Maynard -- Performing dreams: a counter-history of models as glamour's embodiment / PatrĂ­cia Soley-Beltran -- Part II : The figure of the model and reality TV / Stephanie Sadre-Orafai -- Made in Japan: fashion modelling in Tokyo / Ashley Mears -- Modelling consumption: fashion modelling work in contemporary society / Elizabeth Wissinger -- Fashion modelling: the industry perspective.
Summary: This volume brings together cutting-edge articles on fashion models, examining modelling through race, class and gender, as well as its structure as an aesthetic marketplace within the global fashion economy. Essays include treatments of the history of fashion modelling, exploring how concerns about racial purity and the idealization of light skinned black models shaped the practice of modelling in its early years. Other essays examine how models have come to define femininity through consumer culture. While modelling's global nature is addressed throughout, chapters deal speciafically with model markets in Australia and Tokyo, where nationalist concerns colour what is considered a pretty face.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-219) and index.

Introduction / Joanne Entwistle and Elizabeth Wissinger -- Models as brands: critical thinking about bodies and images / Joanne Entwistle and Don Slater -- Part I : From artist's model to the 'natural girl': containing sexuality in early-twentieth-century modelling / Elspeth H. Brown -- "Giving coloured sisters a superficial equality': re-modelling African American womanhood in early postwar America / Laila Haidarali -- Fashion modelling in Australia / Margaret Maynard -- Performing dreams: a counter-history of models as glamour's embodiment / PatrĂ­cia Soley-Beltran -- Part II : The figure of the model and reality TV / Stephanie Sadre-Orafai -- Made in Japan: fashion modelling in Tokyo / Ashley Mears -- Modelling consumption: fashion modelling work in contemporary society / Elizabeth Wissinger -- Fashion modelling: the industry perspective.

This volume brings together cutting-edge articles on fashion models, examining modelling through race, class and gender, as well as its structure as an aesthetic marketplace within the global fashion economy. Essays include treatments of the history of fashion modelling, exploring how concerns about racial purity and the idealization of light skinned black models shaped the practice of modelling in its early years. Other essays examine how models have come to define femininity through consumer culture. While modelling's global nature is addressed throughout, chapters deal speciafically with model markets in Australia and Tokyo, where nationalist concerns colour what is considered a pretty face.

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