Hair Styling, Culture and Fashion

by Cheang, Sarah; Biddle-Perry, Geraldine

• ISBN13: 9781845207915
• ISBN10: 1845207912
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-15
• Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd

Summary

This book explores the social importance of hair, wherever it grows, explaining the cultural significance of hair and hairiness, and presenting a new critical engagement with hair and its stories, histories, performances and rituals. From heads, legs and underarms, to wigs and beards, and everything in between, the presentation, manipulation and daily experience of human hair plays a central and dynamic role within fashion, self-expression and the creation of social identity. The book's diverse range of cross-cultural essays encompasses the study of hair in fashion, film, art, history, literature, performance and consumer culture. Offering an accessible mix of visual analysis, cultural commentary and critical theory,Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashionwill appeal to all those interested in the presentation and analysis of cultural identity and the body.

Author Biography

SARAH CHEANG is Senior Lecturer at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. GERALDINE BIDDLE-PERRY is Lecturer at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London.

Table of Contents

Introduction

American Science Fiction Culture

Conflict and Consensus: The Cold War and the Space Race

Pushing the Frontiers of Reality: Science Fiction and the Counterculture

Unsettling Visions of America's Future Present: Dystopian Science Fiction

Hopes and Fears: Aliens, Cyborgs and the Science Fiction Blockbuster

Beyond Truth and Reason: Politics and Identity in Science Fiction

American Science Fiction Post 9/11

Filmography

Bibliography

Index

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