{"product_id":"transforming-images-screens-affect-futures-paperback","title":"Transforming Images: Screens, Affect, Futures - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRebecca Coleman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContemporary social and cultural life is increasingly organised around a logic of self-transformation, where changing the body is seen as key. \u003cem\u003eTransforming Images\u003c\/em\u003e examines how the future functions within this transformative logic to indicate the potential of a materially better time. The book explores the crucial role that images have in organising an imperative for transformation and in making possible, or not, the materialisation of a better future. Coleman asks the questions: which futures are appealing and to whom? How do images tap into and reproduce wider social and cultural processes of inequality?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the recent 'turns' to affect and emotion and to understanding life in terms of vitality, intensity and 'liveness' in social and cultural theory, the book develops a framework for understanding images as \u003cem\u003efelt and lived out\u003c\/em\u003e. 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 affectively 'draw in' some bodies more than others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTransforming Images\u003c\/em\u003e will be of interest to students and scholars working in sociology, media studies, cultural studies and gender studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRebecca Coleman\u003c\/strong\u003e is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Lancaster University. Her research is concerned with theoretical and empirical explorations of the relations between bodies and images, with a particular focus on temporality. Publications include \u003cem\u003eThe Becoming of Bodies: Girls, Images, Experience\u003c\/em\u003e (2009, Manchester University Press).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 174\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 12, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42738386599999,"sku":"9781138820609","price":151.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/30fa6cc524e036e85e479f6e5cb58066.webp?v=1765153143","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/transforming-images-screens-affect-futures-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}