Transforming Images: Screens, affect, futures (International Library of Sociology)

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Contemporary society and culture are increasingly described in terms of change, mobility and vitality. Within this context, the body is seen as a key site of transformation.　 Transforming Images examines how the future functions within this transformative logic to indicate the potential of a materially better time and explores the role that images play in organising what futures are considered appealing, and to whom. The book draws on the recent ‘turn’ to affect to develop a framework for understanding images not so much as ‘texts’ to be ‘read’ but as felt and lived out. Analysing the screens of shopping, makeover television programmes, online dieting plans and government health campaign, it traces how images of self-transformation bring the future into the present and affectively ‘draw in’ some bodies more than others. It will therefore be of interest to scholars and students working in Sociology, Media and Cultural Studies and Gender Studies.

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