Katariina Kyrölä

The Weight of Images (eBook, ePUB)

Affect, Body Image and Fat in the Media

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Weight of Images explores the ways in which media images can train their viewers' bodies. Proposing a shift away from an understanding of spectatorship as being constituted by acts of the mind, this book favours a theorization of relations between bodies and images as visceral, affective engagements that shape our body image - with close attention to one particularly charged bodily characteristic in contemporary western culture: fat.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317011705
• Artikelnr.: 44782902

Autorenporträt

Dr. Katariina Kyrölä is Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. Her current research involves the concept of body image in feminist scholarship, body activist media, pornography, difficult to watch or 'triggering' images, and queer indigenous studies. Her work has also appeared journals such as Sexualities, International Journal of Cultural Studies, lambda nordica: the Nordic journal of LGBTQ studies, and is forthcoming in Feminist Theory. She is the co-editor-in-chief of the Finnish Journal of Gender Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Weight of Looks
Chapter 2 Threatening Information: Politics of Fear in the News
Chapter 3 Inciting Transformation: Dieting Away Disgust and Shame?
Chapter 4 Disturbing Incongruity: Laughter as Corporeal Training
Chapter 5 Intruding Explosions: Stretching Bodies and Death
Chapter 6 Affirming Positivity: Desire and Fat Acceptance
Chapter 7 Expanding Body Images: Conclusion