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Gewicht:
302 g
Format:
234x156x11 mm
Beschreibung:
This book provides a much-needed evaluation of the history of men's fashion advertising in the first half of the twentieth century. Undoubtedly one of the most fecund and complex periods in the history of menswear promotion, the period saw vast sums of money spent on advertising men's clothing. As Jobling expertly shows, the erotic charge in evidence in the representation of the buff bodies in Calvin Klein's 80's campaigns had much earlier antecedents. Looking well beyond issues of representation to broader socio-economic contexts, Jobling addresses an exciting range of discourses relating to professionalization, modernity, mass-communication and marketing, display and consumer psychology.
Replete with confident head-turners, many posters of the period featured dandies knowingly offering up their bodies for the delectation of women - an irony made doubly rich by the fact that these images were consumed almost exclusively by men.
Introduction * 'Design is Just a Detail of our Service': The Development of Men's Wear Advertising as a Social and Economic Force between 1900 and 1914 * 'The Habit of Reading Advertisements': The Interdependence of Eye and Mind in Decoding Men's Wear Publicity Before 1914 * 'From A to E': Men's Wear Advertising and Market Research Between 1914 and 1939 * 'Selling with Wit, Style and Sincerity': Modernism, Class and Gender in Men's Wear Publicity During the Interwar Period * 'Dynamic Virility': Masculine Identities in Advertising for Tailors during the Interwar Period * 'Business (Almost) As Ususal': Men's Wear Advertising, Utility and Rationing during the Second World War * 'Nice Stuff Against the Skin': Pleasure and Spectatorship in Men's Underwear Advertising