Worn

Worn
Author: Ellen Sampson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2020-12-10
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1350087203

In a culture preoccupied with newness and a fashion system largely predicated upon it, what is the significance of worn clothes and why do they have the power to affect us so deeply? How are relationships to clothing produced and maintained through the embodied practices of wearing, maintenance and repair? Through a focus upon a single garment, the shoe, this book calls on readers to reconsider the value of the marks of wear at a time when fast fashion reigns supreme and interest in damaged, or worn, garments quietly increases. Originating in an experimental practice-based methodology which placed wearing at its center, this book presents the act of wearing as a tool for developing knowledge, of 'being in' or 'being with', rather than observing from the outside. Bringing together anthropological and psychoanalytic theory with practices of handmaking, wearing, and photography, this book asks what is the embodied experience of wearing and the affect of the worn? Beautifully illustrated in full color throughout, Worn is the first book to focus exclusively on the significance of imperfect garments as important aspects of our material world and culture.

Everyday Objects

Everyday Objects
Author: Tara Hamling
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2016-12-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351938118

This book is about the objects people owned and how they used them. Twenty-three specially written essays investigate the type of things that might have been considered 'everyday objects' in the medieval and early modern periods, and how they help us to understand the daily lives of those individuals for whom few other types of evidence survive - for instance people of lower status and women of all status groups. Everyday Objects presents new research by specialists from a range of disciplines to assess what the study of material culture can contribute to our understanding of medieval and early modern societies. Extending and developing key debates in the study of the everyday, the chapters provide analysis of such things as ceramics, illustrated manuscripts, pins, handbells, carved chimneypieces, clothing, drinking vessels, bagpipes, paintings, shoes, religious icons and the built fabric of domestic houses and guild halls. These things are examined in relation to central themes of pre-modern history; for instance gender, identity, space, morality, skill, value, ritual, use, belief, public and private behaviour, continental influence, materiality, emotion, technical innovation, status, competition and social mobility. This book offers both a collection of new research by a diverse range of specialists and a source book of current methodological approaches for the study of pre-modern material culture. The multi-disciplinary analysis of these 'everyday objects' by archaeologists, art historians, literary scholars, historians, conservators and museum practitioners provides a snapshot of current methodological approaches within the humanities. Although analysis of material culture has become an increasingly important aspect of the study of the past, previous research in this area has often remained confined to subject-specific boundaries. This book will therefore be an invaluable resource for researchers and students interested in learning about important new work which demonstrates the potential of material culture study to cut across traditional historiographies and disciplinary boundaries and access the lived experience of individuals in the past.

Foot Work

Foot Work
Author: Tansy E. Hoskins
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2020-03-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1474609872

'Fascinating and eye-opening' OWEN JONES DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR SHOES COME FROM? DO YOU KNOW WHERE THEY GO WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH THEM? In 2019, 66.6 million pairs of shoes were manufactured across the world every single day. They have never been cheaper to buy, and we have never been more convinced that we need to buy them. Yet their cost to the planet has never been greater. In this urgent, passionately argued book, Tansy E. Hoskins opens our eyes to the dark origins of the shoes on our feet. Taking us deep into the heart of an industry that is exploiting workers and deceiving consumers, we begin to understand that if we don't act fast, this humble household object will take us to the point of no return.

Bad Shoes & The Women Who Love Them

Bad Shoes & The Women Who Love Them
Author: Leora Tanenbaum
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2011-01-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1609800753

Bad Shoes & the Women Who Love Them is a lighthearted wake-up call to women to make informed decisions when buying and wearing fashionable shoes. Arming the reader with essential facts, citing medical literature as well as leading podiatric surgeons and orthopedists, Tanenbaum covers the history of high heels, Chinese foot binding, the controversy over cosmetic surgery of the foot, and what Freud had to say about women's shoes and sex. Illustrated by artist Vanessa Davis throughout, Bad Shoes & the Women Who Love Them also includes hilarious anecdotes from women who love shoes. And yes—it is possible to make smart footwear decisions without sacrificing style! Tanenbaum shows you how.

Lunch at the Storyteller's Restaurant

Lunch at the Storyteller's Restaurant
Author: Gary Langford
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2016-07-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1514497905

LUNCH AT THE STORYTELLERS RESTAURANT is a magical collection of stories by a Master Storyteller, containing his best stories with a twist of the unexpected in a dimension of the outlandish/supernatural. These twenty finely tuned stories on individuals or couples are funny, grotesque and macabre while at the same time holding the readers appetite for more engrossing of a weird gallery in a jazz set of energy and coherence to ensure you stay in the refrain for as long as they play. Gary Langfords first stories were published in the citys newspaper when he was at school. Since then more than 250 of his stories have been published or broadcast, including 80 in his books of stories. Lunch at the Storytellers Restaurant is his piece-de-resistance of stories with all of them published or broadcast numerous times in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, such as the notable The Couple Who BBQ Cats, Radio NZ, then CBC, North America, to be voted in the top 5 stories in the world, 1995, later in the anthology, Cats, Random House, NZ, 2005.

Horrific Humor and the Moment of Droll Grimness in Cinema

Horrific Humor and the Moment of Droll Grimness in Cinema
Author: John A. Dowell
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2017-12-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 149856500X

When evil clowns menace the screen, do we scream or laugh? When zombies converge to tear a victim limb from limb, do we cringe and hide our eyes, or shriek “What??! Play that again!!”? What about those instances when these seemingly opposite reactions happen at once? This is the phenomenon known as sLaughter. Horrific Humor and the Moment of Droll Grimness in Cinema: Sidesplitting sLaughter presents the first focused look at the moment in audience reception where screams and laughter collide. John A. Dowell and Cynthia J. Miller bring together twelve essays from an international collection of authors across the disciplines. The volume begins with an examination of the aesthetics and mechanics of the sLaughter moment, then moves closer to look at the impact of its awkward frission of humor and horror on the individual viewer, and finally, broadens its lens to explore sLaughter’s implications for the human condition more generally. The chapters discuss such box office hits such as A Clockwork Orange (1971), Fargo (1996), The Dark Knight (2008), and The Cabin in the Woods (2012), as well as cult classics such as The Toxic Avenger (1984) and Dead Snow (2009). Engaging and thought provoking, Horrific Humor and the Moment of Droll Grimness in Cinema will be of great interest to scholars of both humor and horror, as well as to those working in reception studies and fans of cult cinema.

The Western in the Global South

The Western in the Global South
Author: MaryEllen Higgins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2015-04-24
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1317551060

The Western in the Global South investigates the Western film genre's impact, migrations, and reconfigurations in the Global South. Contributors explore how cosmopolitan directors have engaged with, appropriated, and subverted the tropes and conventions of Hollywood and Italian Westerns, and how Global South Westerns and Post-Westerns in particular address the inequities brought about by postcolonial patriarchy, globalization and neoliberalism. The book offers a wide range of historical engagements with the genre, from African, Caribbean, South and Southeast Asian, Central and South American, and transnational directors. The contributors employ interdisciplinary cultural studies approaches to cinema, integrating aesthetic considerations with historical, political, and gender studies readings of the international appropriations and U.S. re-appropriations of the Western genre.