Transforming Images: Screens, affect, futures

by Rebecca Coleman

Contemporary social and cultural life is increasingly organised around a logic of self-transformation, where changing the body is seen as key. Analysing different screens across popular culture - the screens of shopping, makeover television programmes, online dieting plans and government health campaigns - it traces how images of self-transformation bring the future into the present and organise an imperative for transformation to make possible,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415678846
• ISBN13: 9780415678841
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"