LEADER 03758oam 2200697I 450 001 9910790196103321 005 20190503073402.0 010 $a1-280-49926-5 010 $a9786613594495 010 $a0-262-30111-3 024 8 $a9786613594495 035 $a(CKB)2670000000160486 035 $a(OCoLC)780444633 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10539254 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000611602 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12263159 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000611602 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10646760 035 $a(PQKB)11017295 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000131122 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3339411 035 $a(OCoLC)780444633$z(OCoLC)787846302$z(OCoLC)794619356$z(OCoLC)817078675$z(OCoLC)868492695$z(OCoLC)961508768$z(OCoLC)962596647$z(OCoLC)988442845$z(OCoLC)988532433$z(OCoLC)992078267$z(OCoLC)1037929254$z(OCoLC)1038659864$z(OCoLC)1055364544$z(OCoLC)1065706698$z(OCoLC)1081254439 035 $a(OCoLC-P)780444633 035 $a(MaCbMITP)7584 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3339411 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10539254 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL359449 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000160486 100 $a20120319h20122012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe cosmetic gaze $ebody modification and the construction of beauty /$fBernadette Wegenstein 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts :$cThe MIT Press,$d[2012] 210 4$dİ2012 215 $a1 online resource (239 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-262-23267-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aIf 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. 606 $aBody image$xSocial aspects 606 $aAesthetics$xSocial aspects 606 $aHuman body$xSocial aspects 606 $aSurgery, Plastic$xSocial aspects 610 $aDIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media Art 610 $aCULTURAL STUDIES/General 610 $aSOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies 615 0$aBody image$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aAesthetics$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aHuman body$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aSurgery, Plastic$xSocial aspects. 676 $a306.4/613 700 $aWegenstein$b Bernadette$0625119 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790196103321 996 $aThe cosmetic gaze$93764000 997 $aUNINA