The Media and Body Image: If Looks Could Kill
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; andoffers a broad discussion of this topic in the context of socio-cultural change, gender politics, and self-identity.
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Wykes (law, University of Sheffield) and Gunter (journalism, University of Sheffield) compile new empirical work on both media representations of body image and audience responses to these representations, within a broad discussion of socio-cultural change, gender politics, and self-identity. The first part, mainly by Wykes, focuses on textual theory and analysis, overviewing theories of eating disorders, subjective identity, the history of representation, and the role of socio-cultural discourse. The second part, mainly by Gunter, reports audience research that seeks to elicit evidence of effects or correlations from media users themselves. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
1Could looks kill?12Dying to be thin133Body matters364Print : selling sex and slenderness655Starring roles : screening images1006From representation to effects1387Media exposure and body image ideals1548Media causation and body image perceptions1749The media and clinical problems with body image19210Conclusion : body messages and body meanings204
\ Choice Magazine"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. "— P.A. Fulfs\ \ \ \ \ CHOICE - P.A. Fulfs\ "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."\ \
