Body Shots

Body ShotsCombining the analytical tools of cinema studies with insights from clinical practice focused on eating disorders, Body Shots offers a compelling case for widespread media literacy to combat the effects of the "eating disordered culture" represented in Hollywood productions and popular images of celebrity life. How do movie star bodies and celebrity culture influence the way real girls and women feel about their own size and shape? What effect can

" an in-between time in which "the old [order] is dying and the new cannot be born

"--New England Psychologist

Farro became the first black woman to publish a novel in the United States

Grigorii Aleksandrov’s musical comedy films

providing a valuable lifetime resource

Drawing on interviews and longitudinal observation

relates several of the episodes found universally in Alexander romances such as Alexander's confrontation with Darius

David Bolotin

and political and industry leaders

Sex variations in attitudes and behaviors are integrated in the introductory chapter

A PDF version of this book is available for free in Open Access here

The present volume intends to offer new insight into Roberto Esposito's seminal notion of "Italian Thought