Add to ORKGPopular culture is an instrument of somatic society highlighting the importance of the body in the West. Reality Television in particular routinely scrutinizes and literally dissects individual corporealities. This thesis explores the role of body size on television through defining and analysing the Weight Programme. The study examines its adherence to dominant neoliberal discourses through outlining its stylistic and narrative characteristics.ba_filmmedunpub1566_ethesesunpu
Our contemporary Western society abundantly surrounds us with beauty ideals and perfect bodies. Both...
Mass Media has a long-standing reputation of influencing perception and affecting behavior. And in t...
The Weight of Images explores the ways in which media images can train their viewers’ bodies. Propos...
Popular culture is an instrument of somatic society highlighting the importance of the body in the W...
This dissertation presents an investigation into audience perceptions of weight-related reality tele...
As the obesity epidemic fills the news hours, weight-loss TV programmes fill day-time viewing and th...
This study attempts to bring some clarity to the relationships among genre-related television (TV) e...
This thesis investigates the employment of the transforming body in contemporary television and film...
The formats of makeover and lifestyle television are an evolution of the reality television genre. T...
This study conducted a critical analysis of image discourses about obese people by mass media in the...
The 'obese' female body has often been portrayed as the 'other' to the slender body. However, this p...
Abstract: Mass Media has a long-standing reputation of influencing perception and affecting behavior...
This article analyzes three popular TLC programs that are emblematic of contemporary reality televis...
Disability, Obesity and Ageing offers an engaging account of a new area of pressing concern, analysi...
Disability, Obesity and Ageing offers an engaging account of a new area of pressing concern, analysi...
Our contemporary Western society abundantly surrounds us with beauty ideals and perfect bodies. Both...
Mass Media has a long-standing reputation of influencing perception and affecting behavior. And in t...
The Weight of Images explores the ways in which media images can train their viewers’ bodies. Propos...
Popular culture is an instrument of somatic society highlighting the importance of the body in the W...
This dissertation presents an investigation into audience perceptions of weight-related reality tele...
As the obesity epidemic fills the news hours, weight-loss TV programmes fill day-time viewing and th...
This study attempts to bring some clarity to the relationships among genre-related television (TV) e...
This thesis investigates the employment of the transforming body in contemporary television and film...
The formats of makeover and lifestyle television are an evolution of the reality television genre. T...
This study conducted a critical analysis of image discourses about obese people by mass media in the...
The 'obese' female body has often been portrayed as the 'other' to the slender body. However, this p...
Abstract: Mass Media has a long-standing reputation of influencing perception and affecting behavior...
This article analyzes three popular TLC programs that are emblematic of contemporary reality televis...
Disability, Obesity and Ageing offers an engaging account of a new area of pressing concern, analysi...
Disability, Obesity and Ageing offers an engaging account of a new area of pressing concern, analysi...
Our contemporary Western society abundantly surrounds us with beauty ideals and perfect bodies. Both...
Mass Media has a long-standing reputation of influencing perception and affecting behavior. And in t...
The Weight of Images explores the ways in which media images can train their viewers’ bodies. Propos...