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Body shots : Hollywood and the culture of eating disorders /

Fox-Kales, Emily, 1944-

Body shots : Hollywood and the culture of eating disorders / Emily Fox-Kales. - Albany : State University of New York Press, c2011. - x, 195 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-186) and index.

Introduction : screen bodies and eating disorders -- Body identifications : the movie screen and the mirror -- Celebrity bodies -- Body mastery and the ideology of fitness -- Body transformation : ugly ducklings, swans and movie makeovers -- Body stigmatization : fat suits and big mamas -- Teen bodies : valley girls and middle-school vamps -- Alternative visions.

9781438435299 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781438435282 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2010031821


Human body in motion pictures.
Body image in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--Influence.
Motion pictures and women.
Women in motion pictures.

PN1995.9.B62 / F69 2011

791.43/6561

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