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One Size Does Not Fit All

Undressing the Performance of Bodies in Popular Culture

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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This edited collection explores the malleability and influence of body image, focusing particularly on how media representation and popular culture’s focus on the body exacerbates the crucial social influence these representations can have on audiences’ perceptions of themselves and others. Contributors investigate the cultural context and lived experiences of individuals’ relationships with their bodies, going beyond examination of the thin, ideal body type to explore the emerging representations and portrayals of a diverse set of body types across the media spectrum, paving the way for future research on this topic. Scholars of media studies, popular culture, and health communication will find this book particularly useful.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-11-22
Mått159 x 235 x 24 mm
Vikt617 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCommunication Perspectives in Popular Culture
Antal sidor324
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781793646965

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceSarah S. LeBlancChapter 1: The Body, the Media, and Popular CultureK. Megan Hopper, Sarah S. LeBlanc, and Sylvia RustPart I: LizzoChapter 2: Auntie Sam Rocks the Vote! The Embodied Politics of Lizzo in the 2020 U.S. ElectionRuth BeermanChapter 3: Feelin’ Good as Hell?: The Influence of Cardi B. and Lizzo’s Music Videos on College-Aged Women’s Perceptions of Beauty, Sexism, and SexualizationAmy Crumbaugh, Tamanna Tasmin, & K. Megan HopperTelevisionPart II: Social MediaChapter 4: “This is the Kind of Influencer We Want to See!”: A Study of Body Representation among Instagram InfluencersNora SurenChapter 5: Accidental Culture Jamming: Celeste Barber and the Juxtaposition Between the Real and Ideal BodyErin Cook and Trischa GoodnowChapter 6: Keeping Up with the Yummy Mummies?: Examining Kim Kardashian’s Mediated Yummy Mummy Images on the reality television program Keeping Up with The Kardashians versus Instagram posts.Suri M. Pourm

LeBlanc and Hopper have assembled an exciting and timely collection about popular discourses about, and media representations of, bodies, identities, and weight. Featuring chapters that engage contemporary size-related social issues, ad campaigns, influencers, and/or celebrities, contributors offer critical arguments and observations about embodiment and empowerment, shame and stigma, health and happiness, desire and desirability.