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Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection

Cosmetic Surgery, Weight Loss and Beauty in Popular Culture

By: Dr Deborah Harris-Moore

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Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection

Cosmetic Surgery, Weight Loss and Beauty in Popular Culture

By: Dr Deborah Harris-Moore

Against the background of the so-called ‘obesity epidemic’, Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection critically examines the discourses of physical perfection that pervade Western societies, shedding new light on the rhetorical forces behind body anxieties and extreme methods of weight loss and beautification. Drawing on rich interview material with cosmetic surgery patients and offering fresh analyses of various texts from popular culture, including internationally-screened reality-television shows including The Biggest Loser, Extreme Makeover and The Swan as well as 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. With attention to contemporary lines of resistance to standards of thinness and attempts to redefine conceptions of beauty, Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection will appeal to scholars and students of popular culture, television, media and cultural studies, as well as the sociology of the body, feminist thought, body transformation and cosmetic surgery.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409469468

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9781409469469

Disability, Obesity and Ageing

Popular Media Identifications

By: Dr Debbie Rodan

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Disability, Obesity and Ageing

Popular Media Identifications

By: Dr Debbie Rodan

Disability, Obesity and Ageing offers an engaging account of a new area of pressing concern, analysing the way in which ‘spurned’ identities are depicted and reacted to in televisual genres and on-line forums. Examining the symbolic power of the media, this book presents case studies from reality, drama and comic television programmes popular in the UK, USA and Australia to shed light on the representation of disability, obesity, and ageing the manner in which their status as unwanted and unwelcome identities is perpetuated.

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177

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1409440516

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9781409440512

The American Imperial Gothic

Popular Culture, Empire, Violence

By: Dr Johan Höglund

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The American Imperial Gothic

Popular Culture, Empire, Violence

By: Dr Johan Höglund

Drawing on a rich array of texts from a long history of the gothic, this book contends that the doom faced by the world in popular culture is related to the current global instability, renegotiation of worldwide power and the American bid for hegemony. Revealing the ways in which images of destruction and social upheaval both query the violence with which the US has asserted itself locally and globally, and feed the longing for stable imperial structures, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of popular culture, cultural and media studies, literary and visual studies and sociology.

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225

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409449548

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9781409449546

Representations of HIV/AIDS in Contemporary Hispano-American and Caribbean Culture

Cuerpos suiSIDAs

By: Dr Gustavo Subero

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Representations of HIV/AIDS in Contemporary Hispano-American and Caribbean Culture

Cuerpos suiSIDAs

By: Dr Gustavo Subero

Exploring the mechanisms and strategies used in different cultures across Hispano-America and the Caribbean to narrativise, represent and understand HIV/AIDS as a social and human phenomenon, this book examines a wide range of cultural, artistic and media texts, as well as issues of human phenomenology, to understand the ways in which HIV positive individuals make sense of their own lives, and of the ways in which the rest of society sees them. Drawing on a variety of cultural texts from cinema, television, photography and literature, the author considers the manner in which contemporary cultural forms have shaped a body of public opinion in response to the social and cultural impact of HIV/AIDS, re-interpreting the condition in the light of advances in treatment. With attention to both the temporality and spatiality of production, this book examines whether heterosexual and homosexual, and masculine and feminine bodies are narrativised in the same manner, considering the question of whether representations foster discrimination of any kind. The book also asks whether representations across Latin America are homogenous or varied according to national, social or cultural context, and explores the commonalities between the representations of HIV/AIDS in Hispano-America and the Caribbean and other global narratives. A detailed study of the various representations of HIV/AIDS and the construction of public opinion, this book will appeal to scholars of cultural, media and film studies, the sociology of health, the body and illness, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

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1472425979

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Book's by Dr Deborah Harris-Moore

Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection

Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection

Disability, Obesity and Ageing

Disability, Obesity and Ageing

The American Imperial Gothic

The American Imperial Gothic

Representations of HIV/AIDS in Contemporary Hispano-American and Caribbean Culture

Representations of HIV/AIDS in Contemporary Hispano-American and Caribbean Culture

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