The media and body image : if looks could kill / Maggie Wykes and Barrie Gunter.
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TextPublisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2005Description: iv, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0761942483 (pbk.); 0761942475 (hbk.)Subject(s): Mass media and culture | Body image | Mass media -- Psychological aspects | Mass media -- InfluenceDDC classification: 302.23 LOC classification: P94.6 | .W95 2005
Contents:
Could looks kill? -- Dying to be thin -- Body matters -- Print : selling sex and slenderness -- Starring roles : screening images -- From representation to effects -- Media exposure and body image ideals -- Media causation and body image perceptions -- The media and clinical problems with body image -- Conclusion : body messages and body meanings.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-246) and index.
1. Could looks kill? -- 2. Dying to be thin -- 3. Body matters -- 4. Print : selling sex and slenderness -- 5. Starring roles : screening images -- 6. From representation to effects -- 7. Media exposure and body image ideals -- 8. Media causation and body image perceptions -- 9. The media and clinical problems with body image -- 10. Conclusion : body messages and body meanings.
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