This chapter aims to analyse the relationship between fashion and literary studies in the context of English cultural history. By tracing the conflation of the notion of ideology into models of hegemony and discoursive practices, it will highlight the conceptual basis for a proper understanding of the cultural approach in the study of literary objects and fashion phenomena.
As Jennifer Craik pointed out in her The Face Of Fashion: Cultural Studies In Fashion “the discourse surrounding men’s fashion resolves around a set of denials”. It is not by chance that one of the major turning points in the history of clothing, the Great Male Renunciation, evolves around men capitulation to adornment and beauty in favor of the new, sober monopoly of the suit.
L'articolo analizza la realtà sociale della Romania indipendente a cavallo fra XIX e XX secolo concentrandosi su alcune riviste di moda edite nella capitale Bucarest.
Cinema, in particular the auteur one, often offers a dense and sometimes visionary reflection on the processes of constitution and medial recognition of celebrities, some religious figures included, helping us to understand the depth of these phenomena also in relation to the different moments of history and of media development.
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