The Media and Body Image If Looks Could Kill [Hardcover]

The Media and Body Image draws together literature from sociology, gender studies, and psychology;?brings together new empirical work on both media representations and audience responses; and?offers a broad discussion of this topic in the context of socio-cultural change, gender politics, and self-identity.The Media and Body Image draws together literature from sociology, gender studies, and psychology;?brings together new empirical work on both media representations and audience responses; and?offers a broad discussion of this topic in the context of socio-cultural change, gender politics, and self-identity. Wykes and Gunter take a novel approach to familiar subjects - body image, eating disorders, Western ideals of beauty, media representations of femininity - by offering historical contextualization of the discourses surrounding each issue and articulating how these discourses relate. The upshot is a useful discussion that interrogates, rather than presumes, the effects of mass media on audiences and consumers. . . . Highly recommended. Could Looks Kill?
PART ONE: MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS
Dying to Be Thin
Body Matters
Print
Selling Sex and Slenderness
Starring Roles
Screening Images
PART TWO: FROM MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS TO AUDIENCE IMPACT
From Representation to Effects
Media Exposure and Body Image Ideals
Media Causation and Body Image Perception
The Media and Clinical Problems with Body Image
Conclusion
Body Messages and Body Meanings