The Weight of Images Affect, Body Image and Fat in the Media
Auteur : Kyrölä Katariina
The Weight of Images explores the ways in which media images can train their viewers? bodies. Proposing a shift away from an understanding of spectatorship as being constituted by acts of the mind, this book favours a theorization of relations between bodies and images as visceral, affective engagements that shape our body image - with close attention to one particularly charged bodily characteristic in contemporary western culture: fat. The first mapping of the ways in which fat, gendered bodies are represented across a variety of media forms and genres, from reality television to Hollywood movies, from TV sitcoms to documentaries, from print magazine and news media to online pornography, The Weight of Images contends that media images of fat bodies are never only about fat; rather, they are about our relation to corporeal vulnerability overall. A ground-breaking volume, engaging with a rich variety of media and cultural texts, whilst examining the possibilities of critical auto-ethnography to unravel how body images take shape affectively between bodies and images, this book will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, media, cultural and gender studies, with interests in embodiment and affect.
Dr. Katariina Kyrölä is Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. Her current research involves the concept of body image in feminist scholarship, body activist media, pornography, difficult to watch or ‘triggering’ images, and queer indigenous studies. Her work has also appeared journals such as Sexualities, International Journal of Cultural Studies, lambda nordica: the Nordic journal of LGBTQ studies, and is forthcoming in Feminist Theory. She is the co-editor-in-chief of the Finnish Journal of Gender Studies.
Date de parution : 03-2014
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 10-2016
15.6x23.4 cm
Thèmes de The Weight of Images :
Mots-clés :
viewing; bodies; body; fat; bordo; 1993a; women; female; eating; disordered; Water Park; Examined Point Time; Young Man; Helsingin Sanomat; Viewing Bodies; Fat Bodies; Creed 1993a; Bordo 1993a; Fat Female Body; Drew Carey Show; Dead Man; Fat Suit; Fat Woman; Eating Gilbert Grape; Fat Male Body; Affective Engagements; Fat Beauty; Big Love; Hard Fat; War Times; Fat Acceptance; Contemporary Media Images; Eating Disorders; Fat Friends; Body Image Formation