03758oam 2200697I 450 991079019610332120190503073402.01-280-49926-597866135944950-262-30111-39786613594495(CKB)2670000000160486(OCoLC)780444633(CaPaEBR)ebrary10539254(SSID)ssj0000611602(PQKBManifestationID)12263159(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000611602(PQKBWorkID)10646760(PQKB)11017295(StDuBDS)EDZ0000131122(MiAaPQ)EBC3339411(OCoLC)780444633(OCoLC)787846302(OCoLC)794619356(OCoLC)817078675(OCoLC)868492695(OCoLC)961508768(OCoLC)962596647(OCoLC)988442845(OCoLC)988532433(OCoLC)992078267(OCoLC)1037929254(OCoLC)1038659864(OCoLC)1055364544(OCoLC)1065706698(OCoLC)1081254439(OCoLC-P)780444633(MaCbMITP)7584(Au-PeEL)EBL3339411(CaPaEBR)ebr10539254(CaONFJC)MIL359449(EXLCZ)99267000000016048620120319h20122012 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe cosmetic gaze body modification and the construction of beauty /Bernadette WegensteinCambridge, Massachusetts :The MIT Press,[2012]©20121 online resource (239 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-262-23267-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.If the gaze can be understood to mark the disjuncture between how we see ourselves and how we want to be seen by others, the cosmetic gaze--in Bernadette Wegenstein's groundbreaking formulation--is one through which the act of looking at our bodies and those of others is already informed by the techniques, expectations, and strategies (often surgical) of bodily modification. It is, Wegenstein says, also a moralizing gaze, a way of looking at bodies as awaiting both physical and spiritual improvement. In The Cosmetic Gaze, Wegenstein charts this synthesis of outer and inner transformation. Wegenstein shows how the cosmetic gaze underlies the "rebirth" celebrated in today's makeover culture and how it builds upon a body concept that has collapsed into its mediality. In today's beauty discourse--on reality TV and Web sites that collect "bad plastic surgery"--We yearn to experience a bettered self that has been reborn from its own flesh and is now itself, like a digitally remastered character in a classic Hollywood movie, immortal. Wegenstein traces the cosmetic gaze from eighteenth-century ideas about physiognomy through television makeover shows and facial-recognition software to cinema--which, like our other screens, never ceases to show us our bodies as they could be, drawing life from the very cosmetic gaze it transmits.Body imageSocial aspectsAestheticsSocial aspectsHuman bodySocial aspectsSurgery, PlasticSocial aspectsDIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media ArtCULTURAL STUDIES/GeneralSOCIAL SCIENCES/Media StudiesBody imageSocial aspects.AestheticsSocial aspects.Human bodySocial aspects.Surgery, PlasticSocial aspects.306.4/613Wegenstein Bernadette625119OCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9910790196103321The cosmetic gaze3764000UNINA