[ecrea] Film, Fashion & Consumption: new issues and call for papers

Intellect is delighted to announce the publication of the following 
issues of Film, Fashion & Consumption

New Issue - Issue 2.2

This issue focuses in part on 'teen films'. Siân Lincoln explores the 
concept of 'styling' in teenage girls' bedrooms as an ongoing process of 
identity formation. Masafumi Monden considers the concept of 'girlish 
femininity' as represented in Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides, 
arguing that femininity in the film is, unlike in most films, portrayed 
as a fusion of opposite ideas of the feminine (innocent and vulnerable 
versus sexual and assertive). In other articles, Claire Jenkins explores 
the significance of the wedding dress as represented in romantic 
comedies 27 Dresses and Bride Wars, while Nikola Mijovic discusses 
narrative form in promotional fashion films.

Finally, Graham H. Roberts explores consumption and rebellion in Valery 
Todorovsky's Stilyagi, a film depicting the members of the 'Stilyagi' 
subculture in 1950s Soviet Union, which was modeled on 50s youth culture 
in America, and, as set against the predominant drab uniformity of 
Soviet attire of the time, was positioned as a non-conformist movement. 
Roberts argues that as the movement depended on consumption, it was 
essentially conformist in that it prefigured the consumerist 
preoccupations of post-Soviet Russia.

ALSO AVAILABLE: Issue 2.1

In this special issue focusing on fashion and television, Dolores 
Tierney explores Ugly Betty's Latina body, assessing how race, ethnicity 
and class come into play in constructions of beauty in US television, 
while David Adair and Annita Boyd examine the legacy of little Edie 
Beale of Grey Gardens as an unconventional style innovator and cultural 
icon, and Liz Powell explores the portrayal of the post-mastectomy body 
in the UK TV reality show How to Look Good Naked.

Two articles explore the post-feminism and the fashioning of adolescent 
girlhood; Morgan Genevieve Blue considering how Disney's tween fashion 
collection, D-signed, functions as a site for the reproduction and 
performance of an idealized post-feminist tween, while Joel Gwynne 
evaluates competing versions of femininity and feminism in Wild Child, 
comparing the post-feminist, consumerist, fashionable, sexual femininity 
epitomized in the character of Poppy with the old-school asexual 
feminism exemplified by Poppy's British peers.



Finally, the issue concludes with Llewella Burton's investigation of how 
Anne and Mary Boleyn are differently presented through their costumes in 
The Other Boleyn Girl, and Prudence Black's examination of the 
representation of death through the set, cinematography and costumes in 
A Single Man.



CALL FOR PAPERS

Film Fashion & Consumption invites papers for future themed issues 
including a forthcoming issue devoted to fashion and the East Asian 
screen, and new approaches to costume and fashion in classical Hollywood 
cinema. Please see the journal's webpage or contact the editor for 
further details.


To view the full contents, abstracts and articles, please click here: 
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/ffc

Journal’s URL:  
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals../view-Journal,id=203/

Call for papers: 
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals../view-Journal,id=203/view,page=2/


Principal Editor: Pamela Church Gibson, London College of Fashion, 
University of the Arts London | (p.church-gibson /at/ fashion.arts.ac.uk)

Associate Editors: Gary Needham, Nottingham Trent University | 
(gary.needham /at/ ntu.ac.uk)

Alistair O’Neill, Central St Martin’s School Of Art And Design | 
(alistaironeill /at/ hotmail.com)

Helen Warner, University of East Anglia | (helen.warner /at/ uea.ac.uk)

Reviews Editor: Alisia G. Chase, State University of New York | 
(achase /at/ brockport.edu)


Published by Intellect, First published in 2012, 3 issues per volume

ISSN: 20442823 | Online ISSN: 20442831


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