Deborah Harris-Moore

Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection

Cosmetic Surgery, Weight Loss and Beauty in Popular Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on rich interview material with cosmetic surgery patients and offering fresh analyses of various texts from popular culture, including internationally-screened reality-television, entertainment programs and documentaries, this book examines the ways in which Western media capitalize on body anxiety by presenting physical perfection as a moral imperative, while advertising quick and effective transformation methods to erase physical imperfections.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9781138269538
• ISBN-10: 1138269530
• Artikelnr.: 57039553

Autorenporträt

Deborah Harris-Moore is Lecturer in the Writing Program at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Survival of the Fittest
Chapter 2 Mass Media and the Perfection Market
Chapter 3 Reality Television Transformation
Chapter 4 Fabricating Fatness and Transformation in Cinema
Chapter 5 Gaining and Losing in Real-life Transformations
Chapter 6 Resistant Bodies and the Politics of Perfection
Chapter 101 Conclusion