The house of Van Dyne: Defining Marvel’s superhero fashion designer

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Geraffo
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Unique Case ◽  
Founding Member ◽  
Narrative Device ◽  
Fashion Designer ◽  
History Of ◽  
Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics superhero and founding member of The Avengers Janet Van Dyne, the Wasp, has been portrayed as an in-canon fashion designer not just of superhero costumes but also of civilian clothing. Through her continuous usage as a narrative device that functions as an authority on style and taste, the proliferous designs depicted as created by Van Dyne over her almost sixty-year history have expanded to be worn by so many heroes across the Marvel Universe that they subconsciously define our overall conceptions of superhero fashion. This article evaluates Van Dyne’s fictional fashion designs from the perspective of real-world fashion criticism in order to define Van Dyne’s design aesthetic. Through comparisons with key designers and movements within the fashion industry, this article asserts that the history of luxury fashion is the best model for placing Van Dyne designs into context and that the long-standing visual representations of Van Dyne fashions offer a unique case study to explore the narrative implications of luxury fashion within comics. This focus on fashion designs rather than iconographic superhero costumes creates new opportunities to emphasize discussions of the integrality of clothing to conceptions of superhero characterization and identity.

Haunted by ‘Lenore’: The Fragment as Gothic Form, Creative Practice and Textual Evolution

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-147
Author(s):  
Kirstin A. Mills
Keyword(s):  
Creative Practice ◽  
Critical Gap ◽  
Narrative Device ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Way

This article examines the processes of fragmentation and haunting surrounding the explosion of competing translations, in 1796, of Gottfried August Bürger's German ballad ‘Lenore’. While the fragment has become known as a core narrative device of the Gothic, less attention has been paid to the ways that the fragment and fragmentation operate as dynamic, living phenomena within the Gothic's central processes of memory, inspiration, creation, dissemination and evolution. Taking ‘Lenore’ as a case study, this essay aims to redress this critical gap by illuminating the ways that fragmentation haunts the mind, the text, and the history of the Gothic as a process as much as a product. It demonstrates that fragmentation operates along lines of cannibalism, resurrection and haunting to establish a pattern of influence that paves the way for modern forms of gothic intertextuality and adaptation. Importantly, it thereby locates fragmentation as a process at the heart of the Gothic mode.

Digital Britannia

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John KNIGHT
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Real World ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Open Design ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk

Digital design practice is distinctive in its relationship to material and focus on fabricating that into interactive products and services. It’s a discipline that has evolved from significantly different disciplines: Product Design and Human-computer Interaction (HCI). The foundational role that HCI played in the growth of digital design is largely hidden, as is the secret world of design practice. These two shrouded phenomena have evolved from early user interface research, through user experience, to today’s post-agile world and tomorrow’s open design. We report ten years of first-hand accounts to create a grounded, contextualised and evidence-based account of design in the real-world from the 1980s to today. This condensed history of digital design in the UK forms the basis of the concluding sections. The first traces the evolution of design practice over the last ten years. The concluding section presents a first-hand account of practice. This case study shows how design is now deeply permeated by business and development ideas and practices. The paper concludes with some ideas of how digital design practice might progress beyond this presently constrained condition.

RIAS, 1963–1992

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Rock And Roll ◽  
Iron Curtain ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
Unique Case ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cold War

This concluding chapter briefly charts the history of RIAS until the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. By the late 1960s RIAS had undergone three significant changes. First, the station had become a much more thoroughly German institution. Next was RIAS's decision to broadcast more popular music, especially rock-and-roll. The final significant change for RIAS was the introduction of a new format: television. The chapter shows how these changes coincided with political and generational shifts in the last decades of the Cold War, which at the same time highlights the fact that RIAS is a product of the Cold War. Finally, the chapter turns to a discussion of the legacy of RIAS and of how the station's history serves as an important and unique case study for considering the success and limitations of the American efforts to sway public attitudes behind the Iron Curtain.

scholarly journals What is the History of Anger a History of?

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Thomas Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
English Word ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
History Of Emotions ◽  
Hieronymus Bosch ◽  
History Of

Abstract This essay uses the history of emotions to make two arguments – one destructive and one constructive. It uses examples from intellectual and cultural history to undermine the idea that the modern English term ‘anger’ refers either to a clearly defined mental state or to a coherent emotional concept. At the same time, it also questions the diagnosis of the present as an ‘age of anger’. Constructively, the essay uses the intellectual and cultural ancestries of modern ‘anger’ as a case-study in a distinctive approach to the history of emotions. With reference to works by linguists and anthropologists, to ancient philosophical and literary texts, and to some of the most influential visual representations of the irate body and the furious face, from Hieronymus Bosch to Charles Darwin, the essay explains and defends a pluralist and interdisciplinary approach, arguing that ‘anger’ is a modern English word without a stable transhistorical referent, and proposes the method of genealogical anatomy as a way to avoid the twin dangers of anachronism and essentialism in the history of emotions.

scholarly journals Introduction

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 393-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo Corry ◽  
Tal Golan
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Love Affair ◽  
Unique Case ◽  
Book Of Nature ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Of Israel

The history of Israeli science and technology offers a unique case study of a young and small nation that has developed an unprecedented love affair with science and technology. Unlike other nineteenth-century ideologies, Zionism was never considered to be founded on science. Nevertheless, from the very start, the Zionist movement perceived the sciences, pure and applied, as central to its program of creating a new Jewish society in the Land of Israel (Funkenstein [1985] 2003). Modern science was to provide twice for the Jews: a relief from their suffocating religion and the tools needed to recover their ancient land from its ruins. Israel would remain the people of the book, but it would be the Book of Nature, not of God, that would set it free. Sharing the universal knowledge and values of science with mankind, the Jews would finally become both normal and self-determined. Thus, already in the nineteenth century, long before the State of Israel was founded, Zionist visionaries had dreamt of it as a modern version of Francis Bacon's utopian Kingdom of Bensalem, where science and technology would provide health, wealth, and power (Elboim-Dror 1993; Herzl 1902).

scholarly journals Age Management: What Can we Learn from High-End Luxury Fashion Designer with More than 50 Years of Working Experience?

Organizacija ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Grah ◽  
Ema Perme ◽  
Simon Colnar ◽  
Sandra Penger
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
World Population ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Older Employees ◽  
Fashion Designer

Abstract Background and Purpose: While the world population is aging, the aim of this study is to bring new knowledge into age management research by investigating the most important factors that encourage older employees to remain in the labour market longer, also after meeting the official retirement age, based on an in-depth qualitative case study of the high-end luxury fashion designer with more than 50 years of working experience. Design/Methodology/Approach: We conducted an inductive case study in fashion industry. Specifically, our case study is build based on the content analysis of secondary data as well as an in-depth interview with the general manager in the fashion and high-end luxury industry in Slovenia. Results: The proposed conceptual model shows key facets, as assigned overarching categories, namely-vitality, intrinsic motivation, adapting, lifelong learning, and positive emotions and therefore contributes to the age management phenomena. Within the presented case study, we found out that the selected facets are the most important factors for the encouragement to remain in the labor market and to ensure flexible retirement processes in dealing with the challenges of an aging population and workforce. Conclusion: Our study contributes to the theory and practice of age management by narrowing our focus on the best practice from selected high-end luxury fashion industry designer in Slovenia. What can we learn from high-end luxury fashion designer with more than 50 years of working experience? As the presented case study cannot be generalized to population, the presented case contributes to the field of age management and empowers people to rethink and stay active after meeting the official retirement age.

scholarly journals Accessing and applying molecular history

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua G Stern ◽  
Eric A Gaucher
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Molecular Evolution ◽  
Real World ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Learning Algorithm ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithm ◽  
History Of ◽  
Evolution And Medicine ◽  
Real World Problems

Studying the evolutionary history of life’s molecules - DNA, RNA, and protein - reveals nature-based solutions to real-world problems. We discuss an approach to applied molecular evolution that is well-known within the field but may be unfamiliar to a wider audience. Using a case study at the intersection of molecular evolution and medicine, we introduce the fundamental concepts of orthology and paralogy. We also explain a practical entry point to molecular evolution named STORI: Selectable Taxon Ortholog Retrieval Iteratively. STORI is a machine learning algorithm designed to clear a bottleneck that researchers encounter when studying evolution.

Vellamon kanssa ongelle – eli kuinka merenneitoa kansalliseksi kuvitellaan

Elore ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aila Viholainen
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Historical Document ◽  
National Memory ◽  
National Imagination ◽  
Professional Interest ◽  
History Of

This article addresses the discussions on Finnish nation-building. The author analyzes studies made around the folk poem Vellamon neidon onginta / Fishing of the Maiden Vellamo (a mermaid) and visual representations connected with the material. The author aims at looking into the ways in which the mermaid-motive is used in generating national imagery or feeding a national imagination. The Vellamo discourse consists of fifty texts published in 1883–2008. The author’s professional interest focuses on deconstructing intersections of cultural representations and nationalizing discourses: tracking the formation, reproduction and transmission of national narration. The analysis is carried out by contextualizing the material into multidisciplinary discourses derived both from the study of nationalism and the diverse cultural history of the mermaid. The analysis reveals how Vellamo has been engaged in the formation of national identity for both sexes and by researchers of both sexes. Interpreted as a historical document, the Vellamo-figure has been applied to create the prospective national history and civic religion. It has been employed both as an intellectual and emotional force to increase the national imagery and bonding to it. Mermaid Vellamo as a flexible hybrid creature has enriched the reservoir of national memory. Thus the article can also be read as a case study of the construction of national collective memory

Implicit Racism among Norwegian Missionaries: A Case Study on the Description of Africans by Olav Guttorm Myklebust

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-55
Author(s):  
Odd Magne Bakke
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
International Association ◽  
Behavioral Patterns ◽  
Rational Thinking ◽  
Founding Member ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Implicit Racism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Formed Part

AbstractResearchers into the history of missions who have studied Norwegian missionaries in Zululand from the 1850’s onward claim that, in contrast to the racism of their contemporaries, there is no trace of racism to be found among the missionaries. A case study on the description of the Africans by Olav Guttorm Myklebust, a missionary in South Africa who later became a well-known missiologist and a founding member of the International Association for Mission Studies, this article draws attention to some problems entailed in this position and nuance the issue. Although his intention is to give a friendly and balanced portrait of the Africans, Myklebust largely ends up reproducing and confirming traditional stereotypes. Examples include the understanding that Africans are governed by emotions, that they have little aptitude for logical and rational thinking, and that they are like children. These stereotypes formed part of a colonial ideology that legitimated the idea that the Africans were mentally, socially, and culturally inferior to the Europeans.Should Myklebusts’ description of the Africans, be called racist? He clearly breaks with biological and essentialist theories of race. If however, we take our starting point in broader and more recent definitions of racism, which emphasize the function of a discourse, of processes, and of behavioral patterns with regard to establishing and maintaining asymmetrical relationships of power, the conclusion is that his representation of the Africans contains elements that should be classified as racist.

scholarly journals Gerald McCann: The Rediscovery of a Fashion Designer

Costume ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Almond ◽  
Caroline Riches
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Treasure Trove ◽  
Fashion Designer ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Fashion Designers

This article was prompted by the discovery of the archive of international fashion designer Gerald McCann, hidden in a garage in Fleetwood, Lancashire, UK. The contents of the archive revealed a treasure trove of press cuttings, photographs, fashion drawings and interviews as well as designs and costings from a once well-known designer, whose significance to the global fashion industry is sparsely documented and largely forgotten. The article reveals the history of the designer, who graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in the 1950s, during the tenure of Professor Madge Garland, and forged a career at the heart of ‘Swinging London’ in the 1960s. He was lured to the USA in the 1970s, returning to the UK in the 1990s as a designer for House of Fraser and Harrods. The research offers the first significant assessment of McCann's position in global fashion and the value and relevance of his legacy, as well as exploring the rationale for documenting the history of forgotten fashion designers.

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