Bodies rule! The embodiment of power between fashion and politics

Giannone, Antonella 2015. Bodies rule! The embodiment of power between fashion and politics. JOMEC Journal (8) , pp. 1-13. 10.18573/j.2015.10029

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Abstract

This article focuses on the construction of power via the body in the context of the Italian political scene of the last two decades. From a semiotic and fashion-theory perspective,the article interprets local peculiarities through the lens of more general issues concerning the way pop, mass and media culture have been transforming our relation to power, as well as to the high symbolic body of ‘the chief’. Clothing signs, fashion mechanisms and figures connected to fashion imagery have played an important role in redefining power as a gendered, bodily and visual discourse, which is not only carried on by media, but, above all, created in mediated contexts.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BH Aesthetics J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) N Fine Arts > NK Decorative arts Applied arts Decoration and ornament
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Body Power Fashion Pop-culture Politics
Additional Information:	JOMEC Journal no. 8 is a special issue, entitled "Italian Cultural Studies" and edited by Floriana Bernardi.
Publisher:	Cardiff University Press
ISSN:	2049-2340
Related URLs:	Organisation
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	03 May 2023 14:57
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/83395

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