This Year's Model : : Fashion, Media, and the Making of Glamour /

This Year's Model : : Fashion, Media, and the Making of Glamour / / Elizabeth Wissinger.

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Over the last four decades, the fashion modeling industry has become a lightning rod for debates about Western beauty ideals, the sexual objectification of women, and consumer desire. Yet, fashion models still captivate, embodying all that is cool, glam, hip, and desirable. They are a fixture in tab...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Wissinger, Elizabeth,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Glamour Labor
  • 1. Supermodels of the World
  • 2. The Runway
  • 3. The Photo Shoot
  • 4. Cover Girl
  • 5. The Fashionable Ideal
  • 6. The Job
  • 7. Scouting
  • 8. Black-Black-Black
  • 9. Touch-Ups
  • Conclusion: The Affective Turn
  • Appendix A: Chronology of Modeling in the Media, 1980–2010
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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