W16-AMSTUD-127-01 : American Style and the Rhetoric of Fashion. 2016 Winter
Abstract/Contents
- Course Description
- Focus on the visual culture of fashion, especially in an American context. Topics include: the representation of fashion in different visual media (prints, photographs, films, window displays, and digital images); the relationship of fashion to its historical context and American culture; the interplay between fashion and other modes of discourse, in particular art, but also performance, music, economics; and the use of fashion as an expression of social status, identity, and other attributes of the wearer. Texts by Thorstein Veblen, Roland Barthes, Dick Hebdige, and other theorists of fashion.
Description
Type of resource | text |
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Extent | 1 text file |
Place | Stanford (Calif.) |
Date created | 2016 |
Language | English |
Digital origin | born digital |
Creators/Contributors
Sponsor | Stanford University. Department of American Studies | |
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Teacher | Kessler, Elizabeth |
Subjects
Subject | Stanford University |
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Subject | Teaching > Outlines, syllabi, etc |
Genre | Syllabi |
Bibliographic information
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Finding Aid |
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Course ID | W16-AMSTUD-127-01 |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/vs261jj5032 |
Location | SC1454 |
Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Stanford University Archives (universityarchives@stanford.edu).
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
Collection
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