Obesity, eating disorders and the media / / edited by Karin Eli and Stanley Ulijaszek
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| Autore: |
Eli Karin
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| Titolo: |
Obesity, eating disorders and the media / / edited by Karin Eli and Stanley Ulijaszek
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| Pubblicazione: | Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (188 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.4613 |
| 362.196/398 | |
| 362.196398 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Obesity - Social aspects |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Persona (resp. second.): | KarinEli |
| UlijaszekStanley J. | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | How 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Obesity, eating disorders and the media |
| ISBN: | 1-317-08635-X |
| 1-317-08634-1 | |
| 1-4094-5772-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910464347403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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