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Autore |
Eli Karin |
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Obesity, eating disorders and the media / / edited by Karin Eli and Stanley Ulijaszek |
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Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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1-315-59866-3 |
1-317-08635-X |
1-317-08634-1 |
1-4094-5772-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (188 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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306.4613 |
362.196/398 |
362.196398 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; Notes on Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction: Obesity, Eating Disorders and the Media; Part I Rhetorics of Abjection and Alarm; 2 Alarming Engagements? Exploring Pro-Anorexia Websites in/and the Media; 3 Obesity in the US Media, 1990-2011: Broad Strokes, Broad Consequences; 4 Invisible Fat: The Aesthetics of Food and the Body; 5 From Abject Eating to Abject Being: Representations of Obesity in 'Supersize vs. Superskinny'; Part II Representations of Science and Policy |
6 Mothers as Smoking Guns: Fetal Overnutrition and the Reproduction of Obesity 7 Eating Disorders in the Media: The Changing Nature of UK Newspaper Reports; 8 Making the 'Obesity Epidemic': The Role of Science and the News Media; 9 Obesity, Government and the Media; 10 Heavy Viewing: Emergent Frames in Contemporary News Coverage of Obesity; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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How do the media represent obesity and eating disorders? How are these representations related to one another? And how do the news |
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media select which scientific findings and policy decisions to report? Multi-disciplinary in approach, Obesity, Eating Disorders and the Media presents critical new perspectives on media representations of obesity and eating disorders, with analyses of print, online, and televisual media framings. |
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