This year's model : fashion, media, and the making of glamour
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- ISBN: 1479864773
- ISBN: 9781479864775
- ISBN: 0814794181
- ISBN: 9780814794180
- ISBN: 081479419X
- ISBN: 9780814794197
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1 online resource
remote - Publisher: New York : New York University Press, [2015]
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : glamour labor -- Supermodels of the world : living the life -- The runway : step into the room like it's a catwalk -- The photo shoot : strike a pose there's nothing to it -- Cover girl : managing the model body -- The fashionable ideal : looking like a model -- The job : nice work if you can get it -- Scouting : the hunger for new faces -- Black-black-black : how race is read -- Touch-ups : making the model better -- Conclusion : the affective turn. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | Models (Persons) POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor Models (Persons) |
Genre: | Electronic books. |
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- New York Univ PrOver 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 tabloids, magazines, fashion blogs, and television. Why exactly are models so appealing? And how do these women succeed in so soundly holding our attention?In This Yearâs Model, Elizabeth Wissinger weaves together in-depth interviews and research at model castings, photo shoots, and runway shows to offer a glimpse into the life of the model throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Once an ad hoc occupation, the âmodel lifeâ now involves a great deal of physical and virtual management of the body, or what Wissinger terms âglamour labor.â Wissinger argues that glamour laborâthe specialized modeling work of self-styling, crafting a âlook,â and building an imageâhas been amplified by the rise of digital media, as new technologies make tinkering with the bodyâs form and image easy. Models can now present self-fashioning, self-surveillance, and self-branding as essential behaviors for anyone who is truly in the know and âin fashion.â Countless regular people make it their mission to achieve this ideal, not realizing that technology is key to creating the unattainable standard of beauty the model upholdsâand as Wissinger argues, this has been the case for decades, before Photoshop even existed. Both a vividly illustrated historical survey and an incisive critique of fashion media,This Yearâs Model demonstrates the lasting cultural influence of this unique form of embodied labor.