Description
Book SynopsisThe Male Body as Advertisement: Masculinities in Hispanic Media offers a multidisciplinary view of the body of men, of its practices and attributes, of its features, and, most importantly, of its use as a persuasive and expressive resource. Just as it occurred with the female body, the male body has become an object of desire in some instances and an object of expression in others.
This collection of essays represents several developments in the field of communication studies. It is the first time that a study on the body of men in the Hispanic media has been carried out using film, television, internet, billboards, and so forth. This book also equates men to women in the media world. Lacking its own tradition, the male body has followed in the footsteps of the female body. It has been objectified, stylized, and transformed into a weapon of persuasion to reach the modern man.
The Male Body as Advertisement can be useful for students of communication, anthropology,
Table of ContentsContents: Juan Rey: Much more than Bodies – María del Mar Rubio-Hernández/Javier Lozano Delmar: Mythical Bodies: Masculine Archetypes of Classical Mythology in Advertising – María del Mar Ramírez Alvarado: Naked Bodies, Clothed Bodies: Images of the Representation of the Other in the Context of the American Continent – Manuel Garrido-Lora: Dominant (and Dominated) Bodies: The Corporal Representation of Masculine Domination in Advertising – María Victoria Carrillo Durán: Body and Beauty: The Cult of the Male Body in the Printed Press – Carlos Fanjul Peyró/Cristina González Oñate: Obsessed Bodies: Influence of Advertising Male Models on Bigorexia – Salomé Sola-Morales: Consumption Bodies: Cult and Virtual Representation of Male Identity in Chile – Luis Alfonso Guadarrama/Jannet S . Valero: Body of Desire: Homoerotic Representation in Mexican Cable Television – Juan Rey: Combat Bodies: The Male Body in the Republican Posters of the Spanish Civil War – Francisco Perales Bazo: Body and Dictatorship: Masculinity in Post-War Spanish Cinema as Expression of Francoism – Víctor Hernández-Santaolalla: Bodies to Vote: The Representation of the Political Candidate in the Election Campaigns – David Selva Ruiz: Body Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes: Body, Identity and Stardom in David Bowie – Lucía Caro Castaño: Translated Bodies: The Hyper-Ritualization in the Representation of the Male Body among Spanish Youth in Social Networking Sites – Víctor Hernández-Santaolalla: Different Bodies, Different Men.
