Table of Contents

Introduction: Communicating Transglobal Fashion Narratives
Anne Peirson-Smith and Joseph H. Hancock II Section 1: Clothing Communication: Fashion as Written/Image
------------------------------------------------------------ Chapter 1: Fashioning Adaptations: Anna Karenina on Screen
Pamela Church Gibson   Chapter 2: The Desire for Change and Contrast: Fashion in Soviet Films between 1956 and 1985
Julia Hargassner   Chapter 3: The Sad Fortunes of ‘Stylish Things’: George Eliot and the Languages of Fashion
Royce Mahawatte   Chapter 4: Oscar Wilde and the Philosophy of Fashion
Colin Cavendish-Jones   Chapter 5: Lolita through the Looking Glass: Alice, the Japanese Lolita Subculture and the Lolita Complex Kathryn A. Hardy Bernal   Chapter 6: Sewing Manuals in 1950s China: Socialist Narratives and Dress Patterns from New Democracy to Socialist Transformation
Antonia Finnane   Section 2: Style Statements: Fashioning Identity
------------------------------------------------------------ Chapter 7: The Emperor’s New Clothes Revisited: On Critical Fashion, Magical Thinking and Fashion as Fiction Efrat Tseëlon   Chapter 8: From Tradition to Fantasy: National Costume for Puerto Rican Miss Universe Contestants
José Blanco F. and Raúl J. Vázquez-López   Chapter 9: From Iconography to Inspiration: Australian Indigenous References in Contemporary Fashion
Jennifer Craik   Chapter 10: In Your Face: Masculine Style Stories and the Fashionable Beard
Maria Mackinney-Valentin and Trine Brun Petersen   Chapter 11: Becoming Animal, Becoming Free: Re-Reading the Animalistic in Fashion Imagery
Louise Wallenberg   Chapter 12: Fragile Fashion: The Paper Dress as Art and Visual Consumption
Viveka Kjellmer   Chapter 13: ‘O Brave New World That Hath Such Costumes in It’: An Examination of Cosplay as Fantastical Performance
Anne Peirson-Smith   Section 3: Brand Storytelling: Commodified Fashion Tales
------------------------------------------------------------ Chapter 14: ‘Paris of the East’? Collapsing Fashion Capitals through Fashion Photography of Shanghai and Hong Kong
Jess Berry   Chapter 15: Weaving Fashion Stories in Shanghai: Heritage, Retro and Vintage Fashion in Modern Shanghai
Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas   Chapter 16: X Marks the Spot: The Phenomena of Visuality and Brandscaping as Material Culture
Demetra Kolakis   Chapter 17: Cargo Pants: The Transnational Rise of the Garment that Started a Fashion War
Joseph H. Hancock II   Chapter 18: Cool Japan: Fashion as a Vehicle of Soft Power
Tets Kimura

About the Author

Anne Peirson-Smith is assistant professor in the Department of English at the City University of Hong Kong.

Joseph H. Hancock II is professor at Drexel University, Philadelphia, and edits the journal Fashion, Style and Popular Culture.

Reviews

"Remarkably rich and impressively interdisciplinary. . . . Transglobal Fashion Narratives is a welcome edition [sic] to the growing fashion studies literature. The editors are to be applauded for bringing together such a wealth of material, much of it penned by leading scholars in the field. The diversity, both of subject matter and of methodology, is especially impressive. The volume takes us on a captivating journey from Victorian England to post-crisis Japan, from Oscar Wilde to Hello Kitty, from Dawkins to Deleuze, and from paper dresses to facial hair. . . . By the quite compelling way it combines approaches to fashion from both the humanities and the social sciences, it will appeal to scholars working in a variety of disciplines, including film studies, literature studies, cultural studies, gender studies, sociology, anthropology, marketing and economics. It will be required reading for anyone with a serious interest in fashion--or rather in the complex and often contradictory ways in which clothing fashions us, as we consume its images, and retell its stories."-- "Film, Fashion & Consumption"