Bernadette Wegenstein (The Johns Hopk Visiting Associate Professor

Broschiertes Buch

The Cosmetic Gaze

Body Modification and the Construction of Beauty

Beschreibung

How the act of looking at our own and others' bodies is informed by the techniques, expectations, and strategies of body modification.

Autor

Bernadette Wegenstein is Research Professor in the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at Johns Hopkins University, where she also directs the Center for Advanced Media Studies. The author of Getting Under the Skin: Body and Media Theory (MIT Press, 2006), she is also a documentary filmmaker.

Produktdetails

• The MIT Press
• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780262529662
• ISBN-10: 0262529661
• Artikelnr.: 54153391