The Fabric of Cultures : Fashion, Identity, and Globalization [1 ed.] 9780203869024, 9780415775427

Fashion is both public and private, material and symbolic, always caught within the lived experience and providing an in

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The Fabric of Cultures : Fashion, Identity, and Globalization [1 ed.]
9780203869024, 9780415775427

British fashion is characterized by oppositions: punk versus pageantry, anarchy versus monarchy, Cool Britannia versus R

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A pervasive force that evades easy analysis, globalization has come to represent the export and import of culture, the s

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Dance is more than an aesthetic of life – dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the mark

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Textiles and clothing are interwoven with Islamic culture. In Islamicate Textiles, readers are taken on a journey from C

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"More than 10 years ago, Tim Gunn and Project Runway introduced millions of viewers to New York's ultimate fab

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The Psychology of Globalization: Identity, Ideology, and Action underpins the necessity to focus on the psychological di

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Rethinking Fashion Globalization is a timely call to rewrite the fashion system and push back against Eurocentric domina

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Attitudes to fashion have changed radically in the twenty-first century. Dress is increasingly approached as a means of

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From The Artist to The White Ribbon, from Oscar to Palme d’Or-winning productions, European filmmaking is more prominent

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Despite the homogenizing effect of globalization, identity politics have gained significance—numerous groups have achiev

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