{"product_id":"transforming-images-screens-affect-futures-9780415678841","title":"Transforming Images: Screens, Affect, Futures","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Rebecca Coleman\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Feminism \u0026amp; Feminist Theory\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","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45236126548119,"sku":"9780415678841","price":14450.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780415678841.webp?v=1769212009","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/transforming-images-screens-affect-futures-9780415678841","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}