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Body Shots - Hollywood and the Culture of Eating Disorders (Paperback, New)
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Body Shots - Hollywood and the Culture of Eating Disorders (Paperback, New)
Series: Excelsior Editions
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How do movie star bodies and celebrity culture influence the way
"real" girls and women feel about their own size and shape? What
effect can popular films have on everyday eating behavior and
exercise rituals? "Body Shots" shows how Hollywood films, movie
stars, and celebrity media help propagate the values of an eating
disordered culture that promotes constant self-scrutiny and
vigilance, denial of appetite and overcontrol of weight in the
compulsive pursuit of an eternally elusive body ideal of
slenderness and fitness. In a unique approach that merges the
disciplines of film analysis, gender studies, and psychology,
clinical psychologist and cinema studies scholar Emily Fox-Kales
demonstrates how the body narratives of such Hollywood celebrities
as Lindsay Lohan, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Oprah Winfrey and their
battles with bulimia, post-maternal weight gain, and yo-yo dieting
not only serve as public enactments of the same eating and weight
struggles their fans endure, but create a new normal which
naturalizes and even valorizes the chronic body dissatisfaction and
weight obsession that are established risk factors for eating
disorders in women and girls. Written for students of cultural and
gender studies, parents, media literacy educators, as well as film
buffs everywhere, this book aims to provide the moviegoer with the
critical tools necessary to develop a resistant gaze at Hollywood
productions and make healthier choices among the many viewing
screens of our super-mediated world.
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