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Transforming Bodies: Makeovers and Monstrosities in American Culture
Heike Steinhoff
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Description for Transforming Bodies: Makeovers and Monstrosities in American Culture
Hardcover. At the turn of the twenty-first century, American media abound with images and narratives of bodily transformations. At the crossroads of American, cultural, literary, media, gender, queer, disability and governmentality studies, the book presents a timely intervention into critical debates on body transformations and contemporary makeover culture. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
At the turn of the twenty-first century, American media abound with images and narratives of bodily transformations. At the crossroads of American, cultural, literary, media, gender, queer, disability and governmentality studies, the book presents a timely intervention into critical debates on body transformations and contemporary makeover culture.
At the turn of the twenty-first century, American media abound with images and narratives of bodily transformations. At the crossroads of American, cultural, literary, media, gender, queer, disability and governmentality studies, the book presents a timely intervention into critical debates on body transformations and contemporary makeover culture.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
267
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137493781
SKU
V9781137493781
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Ref
99-15
About Heike Steinhoff
Heike Steinhoff is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. Her main areas of research are gender studies, theories and representations of the body, and sexuality in American culture and cultural theory. She is the author of Queer Buccaneers: (De)Constructing Boundaries in the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN Film Series.
Reviews for Transforming Bodies: Makeovers and Monstrosities in American Culture
“The book is certainly a refreshing read for scholars interested in current trends of American cultural and media studies and, more specifically, the sociology of gendered bodies. But the focus on intermediality and the numerous popular cultural examples hold an interest for lay audiences too … . Steinhoff’s book allows us a glimpse at collective fantasies of postapocalyptic reality acted ... Read more