{"title":"Professor Nick Rees-Roberts","description":"\u003cp\u003eProfessor Nick Rees-Roberts explores the intersection of culture, creativity, and society through engaging and thought-provoking works. His books delve into contemporary topics such as the dynamics of failure and the evolving language of fashion film, offering insightful analysis within the broader spectrum of arts and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect richly detailed studies that blend academic rigour with accessible prose, challenging conventional perspectives and inviting reflection on how visual media shapes cultural narratives. His writing is essential for those interested in the nuanced relationship between creative expression and cultural identity.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"fashion-film-by-professor-nick-rees-roberts-9780857857002","title":"Fashion Film","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe moving image has become a key marketing tool for luxury fashion, central in enabling brands to shape their visual codes and extend their brand awareness. \u003cem\u003eFashion Film\u003c\/em\u003e is the first detailed study of the shifting shape of fashion imagery in the digital age, investigating the role of the moving image in the promotion, communication, and spectacle of contemporary fashion. Combining interdisciplinary analysis of cinema and digital culture, this ground-breaking book traces the emergence of fashion film in the 21st century through its historical roots in pre-digital forms of photography, experimental cinema, mass-media advertising, and documentary film-making, right up to today’s visual spread of contemporary fashion on video blogs, online magazines, and live-streamed catwalk shows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExamining collaborations between fashion designers and pioneering image-makers such as Guy Bourdin, Jean-Paul Goode, William Klein, and Nick Knight, the book highlights the critical tension between the fashion film conceived as a creative endeavour and as a commercial enterprise. \u003cem\u003eFashion Film\u003c\/em\u003e also includes a parallel focus on factual representations of fashion through the recent rise of documentary fashion film that goes behind the scenes to follow the processes and personalities involved in making fashion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAccessible and well-illustrated, \u003cem\u003eFashion Film\u003c\/em\u003e will appeal to students and scholars of fashion, film, media, photography, celebrity, sociology, and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596385009900,"sku":"9780857857002","price":54.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780857857002-fashion-film.jpg?v=1777923321"},{"product_id":"failure-by-professor-nick-rees-roberts-9781350369979","title":"Failure","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFashion thrives on fame and success, capitalism and culture. But beneath the luster and hype, fashion is also inevitably about failure – an essential part of its history and evolution.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn his contribution to the \u003ci\u003eFashion in Action\u003c\/i\u003e series of short books rallying readers to tackle pressing issues in fashion, Nick Rees-Roberts unravels the relationship between forms of creative and commercial failure to consider how we might begin to address the systemic failings of the fashion industry today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePositing failure as a speculative way to rethink fashion and focussing on the checkered histories of a number of designers and brands, Rees-Roberts explores how forms of commercial failure within a capitalist framework might actually be productive, enabling designers to retain independence and balance by potentially opting out of the fashion establishment, if not of the system altogether. He then goes on to look at the broader systemic failures of the 21st-century fashion industry, arguing that rather than keep focussing on doing and making, we should be undoing and remaking the idea of fashion itself in order to rethink design outside of the framework of a hyper-globalized industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy applying failure as a critical mode of inquiry, \u003ci\u003eFailure\u003c\/i\u003e invites readers to consider a new direction for the future of fashion – one that values resilience and reinvention over the relentless pursuit of the next big success.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47932157231340,"sku":"9781350369979","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350369979-failure.jpg?v=1783855247"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/professor-nick-rees-roberts.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}