The Media and Body Image: If looks Could Kill.- Chelsea

The article " The Media and Body Image: If looks Could Kill" talks about how body image increases sales and revenue in contemporary media. In todays society media coverage has been a hot topic and some women reach to the point of obsession in order to look like their favorite celebrity. The point of this article is to " investigate media texts in order to theorize how media texts bear meaning and then analyze those texts to assess the claim that media create and promote a thin ideal; and explore how audiences might gain meaning from the media, and with what implications, in order to interrogate the effects debates in relation to body image."


In recent history, the idea of feminine beauty has been shifting toward a less healthy, overly thin model. Women are so obsessed with their figures that they sometimes develop life-threatening habits. Because pressures to conform to a “perfect body” image are high in our society, teenagers have more eating disorders and abuse more diet drugs then ever before. Significant rapid weight loss affects every part of the body and can become fatal.
For reasons that are unclear, many teenage girls feel the need to be as thin as they can be. Many young women develop potentially life-threatening eating disorders, some being anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. I


Citation: Wykes, Maggie, and Barrie Gunter. "The Media and Body Imager: IF Looks could kill.." European Journal Communication (2008): 4. Web. 8 Dec 2009. .