The cosmetic gaze : body modification and the construction of beauty /

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If the gaze can be understood to mark the disjuncture between how we see ourselves and how we want to be seen by others, the cosmetic gaze--in Bernadette Wegenstein's groundbreaking formulation--is one through which the act of looking at our bodies and those of others is already informed by the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wegenstein, Bernadette (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2012]
Temas:
Body image > Social aspects.
Aesthetics > Social aspects.
Human body > Social aspects.
Surgery, Plastic > Social aspects.
Image du corps > Aspect social.
Corps humain > Aspect social.
Chirurgie plastique > Aspect social.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media Art
CULTURAL STUDIES/General
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Tracing the cosmetic gaze : from eighteenth century physiognomies to racial theories of the Third Reich
  • The concept of Kalókagatheia : "the good and the beautiful"
  • Drawing an instinctive connection between physical and moral beauty : Lavater's physiognomy
  • Lavater's concept of female beauty : devotion versus masquerade
  • Lavater's influence on Nineteenth-century culture
  • Darwinian physiognomy, eugenics, and snapshots of objectivity
  • Deviant bodies : criminals and women = monsters
  • Excising the deviant during the Third Reich
  • The reveal : understanding the new physiognomy
  • 2. The dark side of beauty : from convulsive beauty to makeover disfiguration
  • Beauty's irresistible promise
  • Nadja, or beauty's convulsiveness
  • "The Birthmark" and other autobiographies of ugliness
  • From visible to invisible monsters
  • The case of Michale Jackson and other makeover beauty victims
  • The new beauty, or the survival of the made over
  • 3. Machinic sutures : twenty-first-century technologies of beauty
  • The subtly refreshed look of cosmetic surgery
  • Realism : "it could be me!"
  • The swan : you must surrender
  • E-FIT, or how to draw a suspect
  • The Sims : build, buy, live
  • Self-ploitation, when the gaze strikes back
  • 4. Editing women : the cosmetic gaze and cinema
  • Cinematic anesthesia : cosmetic surgery and film
  • In My Skin and In the Cut : two accounts of femininity
  • Activating the female gaze
  • The spectator as cocreator
  • Conclusion : from the male gaze to the cosmetic gaze.

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