552.295 (23W) Specialized Topics in Cultural Studies: Fashion Discourse

Wintersemester 2023/24

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27.10.2023 16:30 - 19:00 BigBlueButton Off Campus
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Lehrende/r
LV-Titel englisch Specialized Topics in Cultural Studies: Fashion Discourse
LV-Art Proseminar (prüfungsimmanente LV )
LV-Modell Blended-Learning-Lehrveranstaltung
Online-Anteil 50%
Semesterstunde/n 2.0
ECTS-Anrechnungspunkte 3.0
Anmeldungen 14 (25 max.)
Organisationseinheit
Unterrichtssprache Englisch
mögliche Sprache/n der Leistungserbringung Deutsch , Englisch
LV-Beginn 27.10.2023
eLearning zum Moodle-Kurs

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Intendierte Lernergebnisse

At the end of the course, the students should be able to analyze fashion discourse and gendered discourses therein; apply linguistic methods to analysis of fashion discourse; find their research interest in a narrower topic within fashion discourse

Lehrmethodik inkl. Einsatz von eLearning-Tools

home readings and small assignments, participation in class discussions, final presentation + a brief report on the chosen topic 

Inhalt/e

The aims of this course are to gain some insight into contemporary theories of fashion and problems in fashion discourse, learn to analyze the following themes within fashion discourse critically and apply linguistic methodologies to them: 

-fashion discourse and theories of fashion  

-fashion and gender

-fashion in times of digitalization

-discourses of femininity and masculinity in fashion 

-non-European fashions and identities

-fashion and consumerism; ethical fashion.


Erwartete Vorkenntnisse

interest in and first acquaintance with sociology, culture studies, and language ideology

Curriculare Anmeldevoraussetzungen

no specific requirements

Literatur

All readings will be discussed in class and made available on Moodle

  • Barnard, Malcolm. 2014. Fashion theory: An introduction. 1st edition Routledge.
  • Barnard, Malcolm. 2021. Fashion theory: A reader. Second Edition. Routledge.
  • Boyd, Kayla C. 2015. Democratizing fashion: The effects of the evolution of fashion journalism from print to online media”. McNair Scholars Research Journal 8 (1): 17–33.
  • Budgeon, Shelley & Dawn H. Currie. 1995. From feminism to postfeminism: Women’s liberation in fashion magazines”. Women’s Studies International Forum 18 (2): 173–186.
  • Cameron, Deborah & Ivan Panović. 2014. Working with written discourse. London: Sage.
  • Couldry, Nick. 2008. Mediatization or mediation? Alternative understandings of the emergent space of digital storytelling”. New Media & Society 10 (3): 373–391.
  • Davis, Fred. 1992. Fashion, culture, and identity. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
  • Duffy, Brook E. 2013. Remake, remodel: Women’s magazines in the digital age. Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
  • Entwistle, Joanne & Ashley Mears. 2012. Gender on display: Performativity in fashion modelling. Cultural Sociology 7 (3): 320–335.
  • Favaro, Laura & Rosalind Gill. 2018. Feminism rebranded: Women’s magazines online and ‘the return of the f-word’”. Revista Dígitos 4: 37–65.
  • Iqani, Mahita. 2018. Performing post-feminist wealth: The intersectional aesthetics of Irene Major’s Instagram profile”. Australian Feminist Studies 33 (96): 209–222.
  • Kawamura, Yuniya. 2005. Fashion-ology: An introduction to fashion studies. Oxford: Berg.
  • Machin, David & Joanna Thornborrow. 2006. Lifestyle and the depoliticization of agency: Sex as power in women’s magazines”. Social Semiotics 16 (1): 173–188.
  • Marwick, Alice E. 2015. Instafame: Luxury selfies in the attention economy. Public Culture 27 (1): 137–160.
  • Moeran, Brian. 2006. More than just a fashion magazine. Current Sociology, vol. 54 (5): 725–744.
  • Reilly, Andrew. 2020. Introducing fashion theory: From androgyny to zeitgeist. Bloomsbury Publishing.
  • Rocamora, Agnès. 2011. Personal fashion blogs: Screens and mirrors in digital self-portraits. Fashion Theory 15 (4): 407–424.
  • Vinken, Barbara. 2005. Fashion zeitgeist: Trends and cycles in the fashion system. Oxford: Berg.
  • Wilson, Elizabeth. 2003. Adorned in dreams: Fashion and modernity. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. (Originally published 1985). 

Prüfungsinformationen

Im Fall von online durchgeführten Prüfungen sind die Standards zu beachten, die die technischen Geräte der Studierenden erfüllen müssen, um an diesen Prüfungen teilnehmen zu können.

Prüfungsmethode/n

Final presentation + a brief final paper (on a pre-agreed topic) 

*all presentations are due during the last two sessions





Prüfungsinhalt/e

a pre-agreed topic for the final presentation and paper (based on the presentation). 

Beurteilungskriterien/-maßstäbe

 1) in-class participation (i.e. presence, assignments, involvement) = 30% of the grade

2) final presentation + brief report = 70% of the grade

Beurteilungsschema

Note Benotungsschema

Position im Curriculum

  • Erweiterungsstudium (UG §54a) Encounters in English (ES) (SKZ: 020, Version: 23W.1)
    • Fach: Stage Two (Pflichtfach)
      • 2.8 Specialized Topics in Cultural Studies (optional: mit Studienprojekt) ( 0.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS)
        • 552.295 Specialized Topics in Cultural Studies: Fashion Discourse (2.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS)
          Absolvierung im 2. Semester empfohlen
  • Bachelorstudium Anglistik und Amerikanistik (SKZ: 612, Version: 15W.3)
    • Fach: Fachliches Grundstudium Culture (Pflichtfach)
      • 6.3 Specialized Topics in Cultural Studies ( 0.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS)
        • 552.295 Specialized Topics in Cultural Studies: Fashion Discourse (2.0h PS / 3.0 ECTS)
          Absolvierung im 4. Semester empfohlen

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