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Behind the Scenes: Costume Design for Television: There are Many Things you Don't Know About the League of Gentlemen

open access: yesVIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, 2013
Focusing on the award winning costume designer Yves Barre’s work for The League of Gentlemen (BBC, 1999-2002), this article explores the role of the costume designer in television production.
Toylan, Gamze
doaj   +1 more source

‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
wiley   +1 more source

‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
wiley   +1 more source

Study in contemporary folk jewelry designs in Iraq

open access: yesالاكاديمي, 2018
I came back and made my jewelery from the first research or studies known to man, and the oldest era and confirmed the problem of searching for the links of sweets and admiration of the magnificence of the effectiveness of the search for the importance ...
Nawal Muhsin Ali
doaj   +1 more source

PLAYING WITH PREFIGURATION: Ludic Spaces and Prefigurative Organizing for Children's Right to the Mobile City

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Earlier writings on the political importance of play have discussed how it can make players conscious of the possibilities of otherwise worlds. Prefigurative politics has very similar aims, but the discussion between the two has been limited.
JONNE SILONSAARI
wiley   +1 more source

Historical accuracy in costume design: experiences and perceptions of Broadway costume designers

open access: yes, 2018
The purpose of this study is to systematically explore one aspect of costume design, the role of historical accuracy in American theater, according to contemporary Broadway costume designers. Using the grounded theory methodology, this study investigated the characteristics Broadway costume designers believe are essential for historical accuracy in ...
openaire   +3 more sources

The Mutable Original: How Chinese Counterfeits Become Nigerian Originals in African Markets

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Affordable Chinese copies of Western brands are ubiquitous in African markets. Despite democratizing consumer access, these goods appear to cement hegemonic value hierarchies that rank Chinese or local products as inferior to Western goods.
Jing Jing Liu
wiley   +1 more source

Tectonics of frame systems in the costume of the 15th–19th century

open access: yesАрхитектон
The article examines the frame systems that formed the silhouette of a women's costume from the 15th to the 19th century. The study focuses on the design features of skirts, which served as a spatial framework and gave the costume a characteristic volume.
Berezova Marina A., Belko Tatiana V.
doaj   +1 more source

Normal Pythagorean Neutrosophic Set for Ethnic Costume Design Effectiveness as an Educational Tool in Cultural Transmission [PDF]

open access: yesNeutrosophic Sets and Systems
A distinctive nexus of creative expression, cultural history, and educational practice is represented by ethnic costume design. It is used as a teaching tool to instill historical information, symbolic significance, and collective memory in addition to ...
Shujun Zheng
doaj   +1 more source

‘Don't Forget Me, I'm Important Too’: Amplifying Self‐Advocate Voice Through Disability Theatre

open access: yesBritish Journal of Learning Disabilities, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Across Canada, people with an intellectual disability continue to face systemic barriers and inequities in employment. To raise awareness and promote change, a self‐advocate led participatory disability theatre project acted as both inquiry and advocacy.
Leyton Schnellert   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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