Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
We all wear hoods: the Grim Reaper, Red Riding Hood, torturers, executioners and the executed, athletes, laborers, anarchists, rappers, babies in onesies, and anyone who's ever grabbed a hoodie on a chilly day. Alison Kinney's Hood explores the material and symbolic vibrancy of this everyday garment and political semaphore, which often protects the powerful at the expense of the powerless-with deadly results. Kinney considers medieval clerics and the Klan, anti-hoodie campaigns and the Hooded Man of Abu Ghraib, the Inquisition and the murder of Trayvon Martin, uncovering both the hooded perpetrators of violence and the hooded victims in their sights.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
| ISBN: | 9781501307409 |
| Publication date: | 10th March 2016 |
| Author: | Alison Kinney |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 176 pages |
| Series: | Object Lessons |
| Genres: |
Material culture Cultural studies: dress and society Media studies Philosophy: aesthetics Literary theory |
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We all wear hoods: the Grim Reaper, Red Riding Hood, torturers, executioners and the executed, athletes, laborers, anarchists, rappers, babies in onesies, and anyone who's ever grabbed a hoodie on a chilly day.
Hood features in the following genres: Material culture, Cultural studies: dress and society, Media studies, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literary theory
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Hood was written by Alison Kinney and published by Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Hood has 176 pages
Yes it is part of Object Lessons series