{"product_id":"transforming-images-rebecca-coleman-9781138820609","title":"Transforming Images: Screens, affect, futures","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rebecca Coleman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138820601\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138820609\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/12\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.39d","brand":"Rebecca Coleman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44063780765951,"sku":"9781138820609","price":68.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e28535c9-94b4-4f71-929b-a632f631147a.jpg?v=1685391607","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/transforming-images-rebecca-coleman-9781138820609","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}