Sartorial Fandom -

Sartorial Fandom

Fashion, Beauty Culture, and Identity
Buch | Softcover
294 Seiten
2023
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-05604-0 (ISBN)
30,70 inkl. MwSt
Explores the intersections of fandom and fashion
In recent years, geeks have become chic, and the fashion and beauty industries have responded to this trend with a plethora of fashion-forward merchandise aimed at the increasingly lucrative fan demographic. This mainstreaming of fan identity is reflected in the glut of pop culture T-shirts lining the aisles of big box retailers as well as the proliferation of fan-focused lifestyle brands and digital retailers over the past decade. While fashion and beauty have long been integrated into the media industry with tie-in lines, franchise products, and other forms of merchandise, there has been limited study of fans’ relationship to these items and industries.

Sartorial Fandom shines a spotlight on the fashion and beauty cultures that undergird fandoms, considering the retailers, branded products, and fan-made objects that serve as forms of identity expression. This collection is invested in the subcultural and mainstream expression of style and in the spaces where the two intersect. Fan culture is, in many respects, an optimal space to situate a study of style because fandom itself is often situated between the subcultural and the mainstream. Collectively, the chapters in this anthology explore how various axes of lived identity interact with a growing movement to consider fandom as a lifestyle category, ultimately contending that sartorial practices are central to fan expression but also indicative of the primacy of fandom in contemporary taste cultures.

Elizabeth Affuso is Academic Director of Intercollegiate Media Studies at The Claremont Colleges. Suzanne Scott is Associate Professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin.

List of Figures.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “Fandom, But Make It Fashion”.
Elizabeth Affuso and Suzanne Scott
PART I: Histories of Sartorial Fandom
1. “Hollywood Fashions for Everygirl’s Wardrobe!”: Stealth-cosplay and 1930s Photoplay
Kate Fortmueller
2. “Anorak City”: Indie Pop’s Resistance through Regression
Elodie A. Roy
3. Five Little Victorian Londons
Samantha Close (DePaul University)
PART II: Sartorial Fandom as Business, Lifestyle, and Brand
4. Fanning The Flames of Fan Lifestyles at Hot Topic
Avi Santo (Old Dominion University)
5. Flying Under the Radar: Culture and Community in the Unlicensed Geek Fashion Industry
Lauren Boumaroun
6. Droids on the Runway: Fandom, Business and Transmedia in Star Wars Luxury Fashion
Nicolle Lamerichs
7. “I AM NOT IN A CULT”: Poppy and the Gendered Implications of Ironic Beauty Fan Cult(ure)
Paxton C. Haven
8. In the Navy: Savage X Fenty’s Fandorsement Work
Alyxandra Vesey
PART III: Fans of Fashion + Fashion as Fan Expression
9. Drop Culture: Masculinity, Fashion Performance, and Collecting in Hypebeast Brand Communities
Elizabeth Affuso
10. This is my (floral) design: Flower Crowns, Fannibals, and Fan/Producer Permeability
EJ Nielsen and Lori Morimoto
11. From Muggle to Mrs.: The Harry Potter Bachelorette Party and ‘Crafting’ Femininity on Etsy
Jacqueline E. Johnson
12. Retcon: Revisiting Cosplay Studies
A. Luxx Mishou
PART IV: Fashioning Fan Bodies
13. DisneyBounding and Beyond: Fandom, Cosplay, and Embodiment in Themed Spaces
Rebecca Williams
14. Wigs, Corsets, Cosmetic, and Instagram: The Prosthetics of Crossplay
Minka Stoyanova
15. “MODEL TRIES CRAZY IU KPOP DIET”: Embodied K-Pop Fandoms and Fashionable Diets on YouTube
Anthony Tran
16. Underwear That’s Fun to Wear: Theorizing Fan Lingerie
Suzanne Scott
Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 21 illustrations
Verlagsort Ann Arbor
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-472-05604-2 / 0472056042
ISBN-13 978-0-472-05604-0 / 9780472056040
Zustand Neuware
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