| This course explores the recent significance of television, its impact on the fashion industry, and the ways in which television itself has become part of the business of the creation, marketing, and consumption of fashion, from haute couture to mass market brands. In particular, the course considers the implications of the coupling of fashion and television for contemporary definitions of citizenship. Texts range from novels and children's books to episodes of Sex and the City, What Not to Wear (British and US versions), Mad Men, Fashion Police, House of Cards, and Project Runway. |
