The art of self invention : image and identity in popular visual culture /: image and identity in popular visual culture. (©2007)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- The art of self invention : image and identity in popular visual culture /: image and identity in popular visual culture. (©2007)
- Main Title:
- The art of self invention : image and identity in popular visual culture
- Further Information:
- Note: Joanne Finkelstein.
- Other Names:
- Finkelstein, Joanne
- Contents:
- Introduction : Hollywood stories ; The art of self-invention ; The visual world ; Faux identity ; Self-fashioning ; The popularity of disguise ; Love for sale ; Life imitates art ; The following chapters -- pt. 1. Self-invention. -- The impostor, trickster and spy : Martin Guerre ; Agnes ; Anthony Blunt as Victor Maskell ; Appearances matter ; Everyone lies -- Manners : The welcome guest ; Rules of the game ; History of manners ; Antique cool ; Deception and invention ; The modern subject ; On being calculating ; The science of the self ; Society as surface ; Playing the game -- pt. 2. Looking good. -- Identity : Status symbols ; Looking good ; Coded identity ; Finding the subject ; Self as surplus ; The irresistible allure of identity -- Advertising : The advertising industry ; The unnatural world ; The afterglow of advertising ; Subjectivity on sale ; Searching for the self ; Lives gone wrong ; Looking -- Fashion : The eye of the beholder ; The fashioned self ; The mind's eye ; Being conspicuous ; The depths of fashion ; The ethics of appearances -- Afterword : Visual culture ; Self-invention.
- Publisher Details:
- London New York : I.B. Tauris Distributed in the U.S.A. by Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2007
- Copyright Date:
- 2007
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (254 pages), illustrations
- Subjects:
- 704.9491552
Body image in art
Self in motion pictures
Fashion -- Social aspects
Fashion in art
Fashion in motion pictures
Image du corps dans l'art
Moi (Psychologie) au cinéma
Mode -- Aspect social
Mode dans l'art
Mode au cinéma
ART -- Subjects & Themes -- General
Body image in art
Fashion in art
Fashion in motion pictures
Fashion -- Social aspects
Self in motion pictures
Schönheitsideal
Kosmetik
Sachkultur
Sozialpsychologie
Selbstbild
Mode
Identitet (psykologi)
Mode
Roller (socialpsykologi)
Zelf
Lichaamsattitude
Populaire cultuur
Sociale aspecten
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781435648920
1435648927
9780857710604
0857710605
1845113950
9781845113957 - Related ISBNs:
- 1845113950
1845113969
9781845113957
9781845113964 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-245) and index.
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.412847
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