Introduction. Fashion and Celebrity Culture: Body Spectacle and the Enlarged Sphere of Show Business

Pamela Church Gibson; Sara Pesce

doi:10.6092/issn.2611-0563/7695

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Pamela Church Gibson London College of Fashion

She is Reader in Cultural and Historical Studies at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London. She has published extensively on film, fashion, gender, celebrity culture, history and heritage. Her books include The Oxford Guide to Film Studies (with John Hill, 1998 ), Fashion Cultures ( 2001) and Fashion Cultures Revisited ( 2013, both with Stella Bruzzi ), and Fashion and Celebrity Culture ( 2012). She is now writing on masculinity on screen and off. She is the founder and the Principal Editor of the journal Film, Fashion & Consumption.
Sara Pesce Università di Bologna

She teaches film history and performance at the University of Bologna. She has done research on the cultural roots of Hollywood industry, on cultural memory and media, on British and American actors and actresses, on fashion and celebrity culture. Her last publication, as editor and contributor, is a book on paratextual media on the web (The Politics of Ephemeral Digital Media, Routledge 2016). She is author of some books: on Hollywood Jewish founders (2005. Dietro lo schermo); on World War II cultural memory and Italian Cinema (2008. Memoria e immaginario); on Laurence Olivier (2012 Laurence Olivier nei film). She is editor and contributor of a book on cinematic melodrama (2007. Imitazioni della vita).

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2611-0563/7695

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Fashion, Celebrity culture, Spectacle, Body, Show business

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This journal issue, devoted to the convergence between celebrity culture and fashion culture, investigates the modes of verbal and visual narrations revolving around attractive personalities. How does this narrative factor, which supports the celebrity system, operate within and influence the world of fashion, and how have the stories about fashion (films, biographies, but also publicity, gossip, events, spaces, architecture) influenced the world of show business? The authors tackle, from different angles, the ambivalences of the notion of ordinariness vs. exceptionality, setting them against the background of contemporary communication, publicity, social networking, and social environment.

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