Overview

This edited collection explores the malleability and influence of body image, focusing particularly on how media representation and popular culture’s focus on the body exacerbates the crucial social influence these representations can have on audiences’ perceptions of themselves and others. Contributors investigate the cultural context and lived experiences of individuals’ relationships with their bodies, going beyond examination of the thin, ideal body type to explore the emerging representations and portrayals of a diverse set of body types across the media spectrum, paving the way for future research on this topic. Scholars of media studies, popular culture, and health communication will find this book particularly useful.

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Author:   Sarah S. LeBlanc ,  K. Megan Hopper ,  Mary Beth Asbury ,  Erin Cook
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.617kg
ISBN:  

9781793646965

ISBN 10:   1793646961
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   22 November 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Sarah S. LeBlanc Chapter 1: The Body, the Media, and Popular Culture K. Megan Hopper, Sarah S. LeBlanc, and Sylvia Rust Part I: Lizzo Chapter 2: Auntie Sam Rocks the Vote! The Embodied Politics of Lizzo in the 2020 U.S. Election Ruth Beerman Chapter 3: Feelin’ Good as Hell?: The Influence of Cardi B. and Lizzo’s Music Videos on College-Aged Women’s Perceptions of Beauty, Sexism, and Sexualization Amy Crumbaugh, Tamanna Tasmin, & K. Megan HopperTelevision Part II: Social Media Chapter 4: “This is the Kind of Influencer We Want to See!”: A Study of Body Representation among Instagram Influencers Nora Suren Chapter 5: Accidental Culture Jamming: Celeste Barber and the Juxtaposition Between the Real and Ideal Body Erin Cook and Trischa Goodnow Chapter 6: Keeping Up with the Yummy Mummies?: Examining Kim Kardashian’s Mediated Yummy Mummy Images on the reality television program Keeping Up with The Kardashians versus Instagram posts. Suri M. Pourmodheji Chapter 7: (Re)Presentations: Personal narratives and the posthuman body in the #MeToo movement Amanda Hill, Ph.D. Chapter 8: “He's dragged me here so I can understand”: Race, gender, and the performance of painted bodies in MTV’s Drag My Dad Wanjiru Mbure and Wendy Chapman Peek Part III: Television Chapter 9: “There’s a lot of Inches to Love”: Expectancy Violations, Fat Identity, Weight Stigma, and Relational Turmoil in TLC’s Hot and Heavy Mary Beth Asbury1 and Jessica M. W. Kratzer2 Chapter 10: “Body-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody”: Interrogating Black Bodies in Cable Television Siobhan Smith-Jones and Johnny Jones Chapter 11: The One with All the Fat Shaming: An Examination of Anti-Fat Bias on Friends Adrienne Darrah Chapter 12: Where Power Resides: An Analysis of Female Bodies in Game of Thrones Juliana Russell and Sarah S. LeBlanc Part IV: Advertising Chapter 13: ""Anti-racist x-rays?: Colour-blind racism and the 'universal' body Beck Wise Chapter 14: #Realbodies: Exploring the impact of women empowerment advertisements Ashton Gerding Speno and Jennifer Lewallen Woolf Chapter 15: Eat French Fries and Be Healthy: The Fit Body as a Means of Promoting Fast Food Debbie Danowski Chapter 16: Ideal-Body Media and Gay Men’s Self-Discrepancy Irena Acic, Lindsay Roberts, and Laramie D. Taylor"

Reviews

Hopper and LeBlanc have assembled an exciting and timely collection about popular discourses about, and media representations of, bodies, identities, and weight. Featuring chapters that engage contemporary size-related social issues, ad campaigns, influencers, and/or celebrities, contributors offer critical arguments and observations about embodiment and empowerment, shame and stigma, health and happiness, desire and desirability. -- Tony Adams, Bradley University Employing themes from decades of research on body image disturbance, as well as themes from the body positivity literature and movement, the One Size Does Not Fit All volume provides a captivating examination of representations of the body in influential popular culture texts. The chapters traverse paradigms, methodologies, and theories, and together, provide compelling case studies of bodies in diverse texts -- from the emodiment of Lizzo to ever-present Instagram influencers to the anti-fat biases in Friends. This volume is an outstanding resource for media and body image scholars. -- Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, University of Arizona One Size Does Not Fit All fits solidly in the growing trend of communication scholarship that prioritizes inclusive, multi-methodological approaches to popular culture. From Lizzo and social media to television and advertising, this edited volume covers a range of production, representation, and interpretation of bodies and would be a worthy assigned text for courses in pop culture, gender, and the like. -- Danielle Stern, Christopher Newport University

Author Information

Sarah S. LeBlanc is assistant professor of interpersonal communication at Purdue University Fort Wayne. K. Megan Hopper is associate professor in the School of Communication at Illinois State University.

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