[ebooks] Al confine (Italian Edition) by Cristiano Andreoli at Arts-Photography

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Fashion on Television provides a comprehensive critical examination of the intersection between fashion; television and celebrity culture. The book brings together theoretical approaches to the symbolic force of television and fashion-forward programming on a global scale.Examining case studies such as Sex and the City; Gossip Girl; Ugly Betty and Mad Men; the book examines how TV has made style icons out of leading actresses and fashion-conscious consumers out of audiences. Using a varied methodology; including textual and contextual analysis; this study explores the cultural uses of onscreen fashion at the level of industry; text and intertext.Fashion on Television is essential reading for those seeking to understand the cultural function of costume in a television context. Written accessibly with a multi-disciplinary approach; it will appeal to students and scholars from film and media; fashion and cultural studies; to sociology and womens studies.