Transglobal Fashion Narratives

Introduction: Communicating Transglobal Fashion Narratives

Anne Peirson-Smith and Joseph H. Hancock II
Section 1: Clothing Communication: Fashion as Written/Image

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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

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Chapter 7: The Emperor's New Clothes Revisited: On Critical Fashion, Magical Thinking and Fashion as Fiction
Efrat Tseelon

Chapter 8: From Tradition to Fantasy: National Costume for Puerto Rican Miss Universe Contestants

Jose Blanco F. and Raul J. Vazquez-Lopez

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

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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