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- Ulfsdotter, Boel, 1959
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Embodying female dissent in Sanditon: The case of Esther Denham's two bodies
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Ingår i: Journal of Film Fashion & Consumption. - : Intellect. - 2044-2823. ; 11:1, s. 73-90
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article discusses the visual representation of Esther Denham, one of the female characters in Sanditon (2019, ITV, PBS), from the point of view of her displayed sartorial narrative, in relation to postmodern gender politics and female subjectivity. It argues that only a post-heritage adaptation of Jane Austen’s unfinished book manuscript would allow for such a narratological transposition of one of its characters into an outright Goth-inflected screen persona, characterized by outright dissent, interrogation, subversion, self-consciousness and ambiguity. The article foregrounds the crucial importance of Esther Denham’s embodied dress practice to get this message across by pointing out its necessarily diachronic screen costume rationale based on clothing items that are historically correct but which also resonate iconicity in our own time.
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- Ulfsdotter, Boel, 1959
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Genius and taste: Sara Danius' couture gowns as extended power dressing
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Ingår i: International Journal of Fashion Studies. - : Intellect. - 2051-7106 .- 2051-7114. ; 9:1, s. 47-65
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article introduces the notion extended power dressing as a way to further the scholarly study of contemporary female executives’ brand of power dressing in the aftermath of John T. Molloy’s 1980s matrix for successful ‘wardrobe-engineering’. This article features a pertinent example from yet another social arena, in the form of the unprecedented couture gowns worn by the late permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Sara Danius, at the Nobel Festivities in Stockholm between 2015 and 2018. The author suggests that these frocks are materialized visions of Danius’ intellectual wit and cultural taste, thus representing a visual articulation of her powerful rank. An important characteristic pertaining to Danius’ extended power dressing is therefore that her situated dress practice, while advocating different practices of resistance and counter- conduct, refuted all sexualization of her as a female subject to the benefit of a self- authored and self-reflecting enfashioning technology.
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