Deborah Harris-Moore

Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection (eBook, PDF)

Cosmetic Surgery, Weight Loss and Beauty in Popular Culture

• Format: PDF

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: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317098959
• Artikelnr.: 45092874

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