<P>Popular culture in the latter half of the twentieth century precipitated a decisive change in style and body image. Postwar film, television, radio shows, pulp fiction and comics placed heroic types firmly within public consciousness. This book concentrates on these heroic male types as they have evolved from the postwar era and their relationship to fashion to the present day. As well as demonstrating the role of male icons in contemporary society, this book¿s originality also lies in showing the many gender slippages that these icons help to effect or expose. It is by exploring the somewhat inviolate types accorded to contemporary masculinity that we see the very fragility of a stable or rounded male identity.</P>
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Gone are the days when fashion relied on a runway launch with coinciding press promotions to show a couturier¿s new range. Today, design houses are thinking beyond traditional methods of display to stimulate interest in their collections, such as to...
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<b>Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2021</b>Libertine practices have long been associated with transgression and social deviance. This innovative book is the first to focus fully on the relationship...
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For hundreds of years consumers and scholars have acknowledged that food is affected by the same rapid shifts in taste and consumption as clothing. Trends in fashion and in food are increasingly being marketed in tandem and sold as fashionable commodities...
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<P>This book, first published in 1987, looks at the culture of the masses and at the political language and actions of the crowd. It examines the enduring traits of a European demotic culture that was largely non-literate, and it then goes on to...
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