Harris-Moore, Deborah.

Media and the rhetoric of body perfection : cosmetic surgery, weight loss and beauty in popular culture / Deborah Harris-Moore. - 1 online resource (210 pages). - The cultural politics of media and popular culture .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Survival of the fittest -- Mass media and the perfection market -- Reality television transformation -- Fabricating fatness in cinema -- Gaining and losing in real-life transformation -- Resistant bodies and the politics of perfection.

9781409469452 (e-book)


Human body--Social aspects.
Surgery, Plastic--Social aspects.
Weight loss--Social aspects.
Beauty culture--Social aspects.
Mass media.


Electronic books.

HM636 / .H37 2014eb

302.23

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