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Transforming Images - Screens, affect, futures (Paperback)
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Transforming Images - Screens, affect, futures (Paperback)
Series: International Library of Sociology
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Contemporary social and cultural life is increasingly organised
around a logic of self-transformation, where changing the body is
seen as key. Transforming Images examines how the future functions
within this transformative logic to indicate the potential of a
materially better time. The book explores the crucial role that
images have in organising an imperative for transformation and in
making possible, or not, the materialisation of a better future.
Coleman asks the questions: which futures are appealing and to
whom? How do images tap into and reproduce wider social and
cultural processes of inequality? Drawing on the recent 'turns' to
affect and emotion and to understanding life in terms of vitality,
intensity and 'liveness' in social and cultural theory, the book
develops a framework for understanding images as felt and lived
out. Analysing different screens across popular culture - the
screens of shopping, makeover television programmes, online dieting
plans and government health campaigns - it traces how images of
self-transformation bring the future into the present and
affectively 'draw in' some bodies more than others. Transforming
Images will be of interest to students and scholars working in
sociology, media studies, cultural studies and gender studies.
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