02960nam 2200577 450 991046434740332120190423025811.01-317-08635-X1-317-08634-11-4094-5772-9(CKB)3710000000186249(EBL)1734081(SSID)ssj0001262255(PQKBManifestationID)12575222(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001262255(PQKBWorkID)11211758(PQKB)10249915(MiAaPQ)EBC1734081(EXLCZ)99371000000018624920140722h20142014 uy 0engtxtccrObesity, eating disorders and the media /edited by Karin Eli and Stanley UlijaszekSurrey, England ;Burlington, Vermont :Ashgate,2014.©20141 online resource (188 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-43258-9 1-4094-5771-0 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.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 Policy6 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; IndexHow do the media represent obesity and eating disorders? How are these representations related to one another? And how do the news 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.ObesitySocial aspectsElectronic books.ObesitySocial aspects.306.4613362.196/398362.196398Eli Karin971072Karin EliUlijaszek Stanley J.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464347403321Obesity, eating disorders and the media2207196UNINA