Body image

• 1. Body Image and Beauty Standards Arts and Entertainment Coverage

2. Key Term and Discussion How do you think mass media affects body image? Body Image A subjective picture of ones own physical appearance established by both self-observation and by noting the reaction of others 3. How would you change this photograph to attract your audience? SCENARIO: You are the arts director of a popular entertainment magazine. You need a cover photo that will attract readers to your magazine over others. 4. Changes: Before and After Photoshop

• Bigger Bust

• Tanner/ More Glowing Skin

• Smoothed-out stomach

• Underarm lines removed

• Flab of skin on opposite shoulder removed

• Removed Sock

• More relaxed hands

5. Key Term and Discussion What is the purpose of using Photoshop to edit an image? Why does mass media do this? Photoshop To alter (as a digital image) with computer software 6. Controversy: Photoshop

• On the cover of GQ in 2003:

• Kate Winslet:

• "The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly I don't desire to look like that.

• "I actually have a Polaroid that the photographer gave me on the day of the shoot I can tell you they've reduced the size of my legs by about a third. For my money it looks pretty good the way it was taken."

• Magazine Editor, Dylan Jones:

• "These pictures are not a million miles away from what she really looks like.

• "Kate is currently thinner than I have ever seen her, petite and sexy."

7. Imperfections in Entertainment Media

• The media avoids natural beauty because focusing on this would not allow them to make as much money. In order to collect a profit, entertainment media finds ways to make people insecure.

• Age

• Weight

• Height

• Skin Color/ Type

• Style/ Fashion

• Natural body features: teeth, nose, eyes, mouth, chin, hair, etc.

8. Key Term and Effects FromThe Journal of Advertising: the idealized images conveyed by the media vehicles may engender a sense of displeasure in consumers with their current physical appearance Advertisements then fill the emotional voidby generating their own set of idealized images that, when read in context of the broader media universe, implicitly promise that the promoted product can move the consumer toward the ideal state. Individual consumers are subtly enticed to engage in an ongoing cycle of consumption in quest of theever-elusive media ideals (Hirschman 44-45). Advertisement A public notice;especiallyone published in the press or broadcast over the air 9. Body Image and Advertising

• The media uses this ideal beauty image to increase sales. Using thisunrealisticimage, entertainment media creates a standard for viewers who will go out and try to buy the products that will give them the image they see in the advertisement.

A good example of this can be seen in the medias creation of makeover shows such as ABCS Extreme Makeover. 10. Effects of Advertising: Case Study on Media Exposure and Eating HabitsLinkto the study 11. Shaping Body Image

• Less Extreme Methods:

• Make-up

• Tanning

• Photoshop

• Airbrushing

• Extreme, Permanent Methods:

• Plastic Surgery

• Botox

• Liposuction/ Fat Injections

12. Key Terms and Discussion Plastic surgery, recently, is viewedmore as a purely cosmetic procedure. It was intended to be a reconstructive procedure, but due to medias attempt to normalizethis dangerous and painful surgery, more people are spending their hard earned money to correct theimperfectionsin their faces and bodies. Plastic Surgery Surgery done to repair, restore, or improve lost, injured, defective, or misshapen body parts 13. Discussion: Teens and Plastic Surgery

• According to anarticleinABC News,13-year-old Nicolette Taylor was allowed to get a nose job after being teased by peers on Facebook.

• Her father: You send them to a good school, you buy them shoesYoud get them braces, which we did. Its that kind of thing.

• Discussion:

• Discuss the comment posed by her father. Is a nose job the same as allowing a teenager to get braces? Why or why not?

• Do you agree with her parents decision to allow her to get plastic surgery? Why or why not?

• What effect, if any, do you think media had on her decision? On the bullying by peers?

Nearly 210,000 cosmetic plastic surgery procedures were performed on people age 13 to 19 in 2009, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. While adults tend to have plastic surgery to stand out from the crowd, teens tend to have surgery to change the parts of their body they believe are flawed so that they can fit in with their peers, experts say. -ABC Newsarticle entitled Teens Choose Plastic Surgery to Boost Self Esteem