Getting under the skin : the body and media theory / Bernadette Wegenstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wegenstein, Bernadette.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Body image.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The body as an object of critical study dominates disciplines across the humanities to such an extent that a new discipline has emerged: body criticism. In Getting Under the Skin, Bernadette Wegenstein traces contemporary body discourse in philosophy and cultural studies to its roots in twentieth-century thought - showing how psychoanalysis, phenomenology, cognitive science, and feminist theory contributed to a new body concept - and studies the millenial body in performance art, popular culture, new media arts, and architecture."--Jacket.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Making Room for the Body; 2 Body Performances from 1960's Wounds to 1990's Extensions; 3 How Faces Have Become Obsolete; 4 The Medium Is the Body; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-206) and index.

ISBN:

0-262-26513-3

1-282-09723-7

9786612097232

0-262-28588-6

1-4237-7255-5

OCLC:

68818097

Publisher Number:

9780262232470