Posts Tagged ‘ fashion ’

Style, Structuring Conceits, and the Paratexts of Mad Men

May 22, 2015
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Style, Structuring Conceits, and the Paratexts of <em>Mad Men</em>

Piers Britton on Mad Men's visual style, series structure, and Sixties-philiac tendencies, and how the TV series turned its tension between the espousal of emotional truthfulness and a preoccupation with “superficial” visual pleasures into a branding strategy.
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Kim Gordon’s Self-Fashioning

March 9, 2015
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Kim Gordon’s Self-Fashioning

In her memoir, Girl in a Band, musician Kim Gordon addresses how fashion and music are mutually constitutive outlets for creative expression and feminist critique.
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Selling Style: Mad Men and the Fashioning of Femininity

August 17, 2010
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Selling Style:  Mad Men and the Fashioning of Femininity

"The Rejected" is an episode in which how the characters look was central to the meanings on offer.
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Mad Men vs Sherlock: What Makes a Fandom?

August 10, 2010
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Mad Men vs Sherlock: What Makes a Fandom?

Over the past few weeks, we've had the opportunity to watch a fandom take root at double speed. And despite the purpose of this Antenna series, I'm not talking about Mad Men.
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Style Blogging and Retail Fandom

February 2, 2010
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Style Blogging and Retail Fandom

The women of the style blogging communities consciously use fashion to shape their identities, form connections with one another, and define particular iterations of contemporary femininity.
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