Theatre 210 - COLQ:DEMOCRATIZATION/CLOTHING
Fall
2013
01
4.00
Walter Hall-Witt
MW 09:00-10:20
Smith College
20062-F13
SEELYE 306
lhallwit@smith.edu
20061
Same as AMS 210.
This course will make extensive use of the Smith College Historic Clothing Collection and the Costume & Textiles Collection at Historic Northampton to introduce students to theoretical and historical themes in the study of clothing and fashion. Thematically, the course will focus on the vast social, cultural, political, and economic changes associated with the introduction of machinery and mass-marketing into the American clothing complex. Topics include the political economy of clothing; the expressive functions of clothing and fashion; clothing, personal identity, and social power; consumerism; clothing, mass leisure, and mass entertainment; the global clothing industry; and transnational fashion influences. Enrollment limited to 20. (E)
This course will make extensive use of the Smith College Historic Clothing Collection and the Costume & Textiles Collection at Historic Northampton to introduce students to theoretical and historical themes in the study of clothing and fashion. Thematically, the course will focus on the vast social, cultural, political, and economic changes associated with the introduction of machinery and mass-marketing into the American clothing complex. Topics include the political economy of clothing; the expressive functions of clothing and fashion; clothing, personal identity, and social power; consumerism; clothing, mass leisure, and mass entertainment; the global clothing industry; and transnational fashion influences. Enrollment limited to 20. (E)