The Art of Self Invention: Image and Identity in Popular Visual Culture - Softcover

Finkelstein, Joanna

 
9781845113964: The Art of Self Invention: Image and Identity in Popular Visual Culture
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1845113969 ISBN 13: 9781845113964
Verlag: I.B. Tauris, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Both an exploration of the ways in which we fashion our public identity and a manual of modern sociability, this lively and readable book explores the techniques we use to present ourselves to the world: body language, tone of voice, manners, demeanour, 'personality' and personal style. Drawing on historical commentators from Castiglione to Machiavelli, and from Marcel Mauss to Roland Barthes, Joanne Finkelstein looks to popular visual culture, including Hollywood film and makeover TV, to show how it provides blueprints for the successful construction of 'persona'. She also discusses the role of fashion and of status symbols and how advertising sells these to us in our never ending quest for social mobility. Finkelstein's interest here is not in the veracity of the self - recently dissected by critical theory - but rather in the ways in which we style this 'self', in the enduring appeal of the 'new you' and in our fascination with deception, fraudulent personalities and impostors.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Joanne Finkelstein is Professor and Executive Dean, Faculty of Arts, Ed. & HD, Victoria University, Australia.


Joanne Finkelstein is Professor and Executive Dean, Faculty of Arts, Ed. & HD, Victoria University, Australia. Her books include 'The Fashioned Self' and 'Slaves of Chic'

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Verlag
I.B. Tauris
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1845113969
ISBN 13 
9781845113964
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
254
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