Fashion as Masquerade

Fashion as MasqueradeFashion as Masquerade focuses on issues of power, social positioning, ideologies and practices within the web of relationships between creators, producers, practitioners and end users of fashion. Masking has a rich history but it is also a metaphor for fashion itself. Fashion is a mask that constructs or subverts meanings. To construct meanings it needs control over what people can wear, and over the gaze that interprets the meanings of what they

the authors provide an objective understanding of what makes your designs work

The result of extensive research about our notions of the city and the person throughout time

spatial and temporal contexts that shape different forms of music and sonic practice

The surrealist object is an everyday item that takes on multiple associations by provoking the viewer’s imagination

this work looks at the guiding principles

the relationship between film and the local music community

these two new geospecific editions expand upon the earlier volume Cinemas of the Other: A Personal Journey with Film-Makers from the Middle East and Central Asia

The illuminating essays collected here cover essential themes of the city’s cinematic history

The contributors ask searching questions about the nature of British film culture and its relationship to popular culture

this new edition offers a mixture of theoretical

Brazilian president Fernando Collor de Mello and Argentine president Carlos Menem eliminated long-standing state financial support for cinema

including its comedic tradition