Fashion in Popular Culture

Introduction - Joseph H. Hancock, II, Toni Johnson-Woods and Vicki Karaminas List of Figures Fashion in Contemporary Culture Chapter 1: Brand This Way: Lady Gaga's Fashion as Storytelling Context to the GLBT Community - Joseph H. Hancock, II Chapter 2: Navigating Cultural Anxiety: Strategic Ambiguity in Lisbeth Salander's Style-Fashion-Dress - Susan B. Kaiser Chapter 3: Australian Gothic: Black Light Angels, Appearance, and Subcultural Style - Vicki Karaminas Chapter 4: Fashionable Addiction: The Path to Heroin Chic - Alphonso D. McClendon Fashion in Media and Literature Chapter 5: Dames and Design: Fashion and Appearance on Pulp Fiction Covers, 1950-1960 - Toni Johnson-Woods Chapter 6: Territories of Knowledge and Nostalgia in Modern Fashion Designer Life Writing - Ilya Parkins Chapter 7: Looking for Mr. Benson: The Black Leather Motorcycle Jacket and Narratives of Masculinities - Marvin J. Taylor Chapter 8: Fashion Photography, Phallocentrism, and Feminist Critique - Louise Wallenberg Chapter 9: 'He Can't Love Me if I'm Ugly': The Recurring Theme of Popular Beauty in the Television Soap Opera Days of Our Lives - Andrew Reilly and Nancy A. Rudd Chapter 10: Redressing the Devil's Wardrobe: Representing and Re-Reading the Darker Side of Fashion in Chick Lit Novels - Anne Peirson-Smith Fashion in Historical Context Chapter 11: Redeeming the Voices of Reform - Patricia A. Cunningham Chapter 12: The Language of Luxury in Eighteenth-Century France - Paula von Wachenfeldt Chapter 13: The Devil of Fashion: Women, Fashion, and the Nation inEarly-Twentieth-Century German and Swedish Cultural Magazines - Andrea Kollnitz Chapter 14: Rome: Eternal City of Fashion and Film - Eugenia Paulicelli