The power of a dress: the rhetoric of a moment in fashion

Prudence Black, Stephen Muecke

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

Abstract

EXPOSITIO This chapter will present the rhetorical analysis of a photograph, a famous press photograph of Jean Shrimpton wearing a mini-skirt in Melbourne in 1965 (Figure 14.1). The paradigm we are working within is the post-structuralist analysis of the rhetoric of images (Barthes 1977), so the emphasis will be on the image as a text, but not the structuralist version of text as a self-contained system of meanings organized around binary oppositions. The analysis will extend formal relations within the text along vectorial lines outside the text to those relations of context offered by history and society and which we think are crucial to understandings of how the text functions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRebirth of Rhetoric
Subtitle of host publicationEssays in language, culture and education
EditorsRichard Andrews
Place of PublicationOxon, UK
PublisherRoutledge, Taylor & Francis
Chapter14
Pages212-227
Number of pages16
Edition2012
ISBN (Electronic)9780203149935
ISBN (Print)9780415694254
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameRoutledge library editions: Education
PublisherRoutledge
Volume111

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'The power of a dress: the rhetoric of a moment in fashion'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this