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.
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.
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
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
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