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Documenting Fashion
Edited by Elena Caoduro and Boel Ulfsdotter
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Offers the first edited collection with an explicit documentary focus on fashion icons, events, cultures and industries
• Investigates the bearings of the documentary image and its visual politics in relation to fashion
• Pushes forward new understandings of how different media and platforms, such as documentary feature films, television factual programmes, online videos, fashion exhibitions, edutainment and industrial films, interrogate ‘the real’ in relation to fashion
• Considers a wide range of both contemporary and historical case studies, including analysis of fashion documentaries, fashion-series on television and online videos, including Queer Eye (2018), Follow Me (2017), Bill Cunningham New York (2010), and McQueen (2018)
• Includes two expanding interviews, one with Alexandra Palmer, senior fashion curator at Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, and one with Lorna Tucker, director of Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activists (2018)
Feuds within fashion houses, megalomaniacs and photoshoot nightmares – fashion and drama have been a perfect match for decades. Over the past ten years, we have witnessed a boom of documentaries about fashion magazine editors, fashion and media politics and the history of fashion houses.
How and why did fashion documentaries and non-fiction media become so popular? Documenting Fashion explores and reassesses the role of documentary media by tracing its history in shaping our understanding of fashion across multiple platforms and different national contexts, including industrial films, newsreels, TV shows, documentary films, digital media and photography. The essays in this collection underpin and profile a scholarly space in which a dialogue between fashion and documentary studies can evolve by drawing from different methodologies and approaches, such as media and cultural studies, ethnography, archival and museum studies, gender studies, marketing and public relations.
About the authors:
Elena Caoduro is Lecturer in Media Analysis at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. She is the co-editor of Mediated Terrorism in the 21st century (with Karen Ritzenhoff and Karen Randell, 2021). She has previously published on nostalgia, cultural memory, vintage media and fashion films in journals, such as Comunicazioni Sociali, NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, and Cinémas Revue d'études cinématographiques.
Boel Ulfsdotter is Reader in Film and Media Studies at Gothenburg University, Sweden. Ulfsdotter has recently published articles in International Journal of Fashion Studies (2021) and Journal of Film, Fashion & Consumption (2022). Additionally, she has published the twin volumes Female Authorship and the Documentary Image: Theory, Practice and Aesthetics, and Female Agency and Documentary Strategies: Subjectivities, Identity, and Activism (2018) with Edinburgh University Press. Ulfsdotter is a formally trained dressmaker, and freelance fashion and visual arts critic.
Press Reviews:
An original, rich and timely compendium on the relationship between fashion and the documentary moving image that explores the topic from a variety of disciplines, from film and media studies to design, communication, history, and journalism. Documenting Fashion brings together contributions that compellingly illuminate the fundamental role of the non-fiction moving image in the theorization of fashion.
– Monica Titton, University of Applied Arts Vienna
This original and much needed volume fills a gap in scholarship and exposes the important contribution that fashion documentaries offer to our understanding of consumer and celebrity culture.
– Vicki Karaminas, Massey University New Zealand
See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press
> From the same authors:
Female Agency and Documentary Strategies (2018)
Subjectivities, Identity and Activism
Dir. Boel Ulfsdotter and Anna Backman Rogers
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Female Authorship and the Documentary Image (2018)
Theory, Practice and Aesthetics
Dir. Boel Ulfsdotter and Anna Backman Rogers
Subject: Genre > Documentary
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Dressing Dangerously (2013)
Dysfunctional Fashion in Film
Fashioning James Bond (2021)
Costume, Gender and Identity in the World of 007
Subject: One Film > James Bond
Clothes Make the Character (2021)
The Role of Wardrobe in Early Motion Pictures
Subject: Silent Cinema
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