Maggie Wykes and Barrie Gunter, The Media and Body Image: If Looks Could Kill. London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi: Sage, 2004. ￡19.99.221 pp.

摘要

the centre of the body image debate. Surprisingly, little work has been done either to theorize the relationship between media and body image or to conceptualize the link between media content and representations of body image issues, audience consumption and interpretation of these representations and their perceptual or attitudinal 'effect' on media audiences and consumers. This book is an attempt to fill the gap. Its objective is to rigorously and informatively 'investigate media texts in order to theorise how media texts bear meaning and then analyse those texts to assess the claim that media create and promote a thin ideal; and explore how audiences might gain meaning from the media, and with what implications, in order to interrogate the effects debates in relation to body image' (p. 29).