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Author:   Cristina Giorcelli ,  Paula Rabinowitz ,  Manuela Fraire ,  Micol Fontana
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.417kg
ISBN:  

9780816675784

ISBN 10:   0816675783
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   16 August 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface and Acknowledgments Clothing, Dress, Fashion: An Arcade Introduction: Accessorizing the Modern(ist) Body, by Cristina Giorcelli 1. No Frills, No-Body, Nobody, by Manuela Fraire 2. The Cult of Femininity, Micol Fontana, conversing with Cristina Giorcelli 3. Fashion’s Model Bodies: A Genealogy, by Paola Colaiacomo 4. Wearing the Body over the Dress: Sonia Delaunay’s Fashionable Clothes, by Cristina Giorcelli 5. Futurist Accessories, by Franca Zoccoli 6. Coco, Zelda, Sara, Daisy, and Nicole: Accessories for New Ways of Being a Woman, by Martha Banta 7. Precious Objects: Laura Riding, Her Tiara, and the Petrarchan Muse, by Becky Peterson 8. Spanish Women’s Clothing during the Long Postwar Period (1937-1950), by Giuliana Di Febo 9. The Yellow Star Accessorized: Ironic Discourse in Fatelessness by Imre Kertész, by Zsófia Bán 10. Terra Divisa/Terra Divina (T/E/A/R), by Maria Damon 11. Black Hattitude, by Jeffrey C. Stewart 12. Barbara Stanwyck’s Anklet: The Other Shoe, by Paula Rabinowitz 13. Fetishizing the Goods in the Cinematic Jewel, by Vito Zagarrio 14. Enchanted Sandals: Italian Shoes and the Post-World War II International Scene, by Vittoria C. Caratozzolo Conclusion: In Closing/Close Clothing, by Paula Rabinowitz Contributors

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Cristina Giorcelli is professor of American literature at the University of Rome Three. She is coeditor, with Charles Capper, of Margaret Fuller: Transatlantic Crossings in a Revolutionary Age and founding editor of the quarterly journal Letterature d’America.Paula Rabinowitz is professor of English at the University of Minnesota and the author of many books, most recently Black & White & Noir: America’s Pulp Modernism.

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