Obesity, Eating Disorders and the Media.
Eli, Karin.
Obesity, Eating Disorders and the Media. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (188 pages)
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.
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.
9781409457725
Obesity -- Social aspects.
Electronic books.
P96.O23 -- .O265 2014eb
362.196398
Obesity, Eating Disorders and the Media. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (188 pages)
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.
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.
9781409457725
Obesity -- Social aspects.
Electronic books.
P96.O23 -- .O265 2014eb
362.196398