CLC5404FashionandVisuality.docVIP

CLC5404 Fashion and Visuality Prof. Natalia S.H. CHAN (洛楓) Monday: 6:45-9:30pm Venue: LHC G06 This course introduces students to the visualization and spectatorship of fashion culture. Our focus is to examine how fashion contributes to the visuality of image culture in the postmodern world, and how different notions of viewing mediate our sense of perception and the perspective system in everyday life. Not only do we explore the media representation of fashion in catwalk, photography, printing culture, popular music, video-making, film, dance, and stage performance, but also the interaction between the viewers and the viewed. Besides, we also study the history theory of both western and Chinese fashion as well as their interrelationships with body, identity, gender, class, and racial formations. Each class meeting consists of lecturing, screening, students’ presentation and open discussion. Evaluation bases on a term paper and students’ presentation. Week One (11 Jan): Introduction Course Organization Screening: -許冠傑：〈先敬羅衣後敬人〉(MV, 1970s) -軟硬天師：〈川保黎明燒著軟硬耀司〉(Rap Song, HK, 1995) -劉德華：〈中國人〉(MV, 1997) -Students’ Design Week Two (18 Jan): Historicizing Fashion Design in the 20th Century Readings: -Yuniya Kawamura: Fashion-ology (selected) -Malcolm Barnard: “Etymologies and Definitions of Fashion Clothing” -Elisabeth Wilson: “The History of Fashion” (R ) Fashion: A History from the 18th Century to the 20th Century Week Three (25 Jan): Fashion Theory (I): Semiotics Sociology Readings: -Roland Barthes: The Fashion System (selected) -Georg Simmel: “The Philosophy of Fashion” “Adornment” “The Problem of Style” *Presentation: -張愛玲:〈更衣記〉(Prose, Modern China) -Fred Davis: “Do Clothes Speak? What Makes Them Fashion?” Week Four (1 Feb): Fashion Theory (II): Gender Identity Readings: -Joanne Entwistle: “Fashion, Adornment and Sexuality” “The Dres