The Male Body as Advertisement
Masculinities in Hispanic Media
Published on 25. August 2015
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-1-4331-2837-0 (ISBN)
Description
The 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, sociology, gender studies, and cultural studies. It will serve graduate students as a bibliographic reference for research on the male body as well as undergraduate students whose programs address issues related to gender studies. This work is also written to reach a wider audience beyond the university.
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Persons
Juan Rey is a tenured professor in the Communication Studies Department at the University of Seville, Spain. He prepared his doctoral thesis «The representation of masculinity in advertising discourse» in the School of Social Communications at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy, and presented it at the University of Seville, where he obtained the PhD Extraordinary Prize for his thesis. He also received a PhD in Spanish language and literature with a thesis on Manuel María del Mármol, which won the prestigious Focus Humanities Award. Rey has published widely on topics related to men and advertising, including his most recent books The Feigned Man and Advertising and Society: A Round Trip. He has lectured widely and has been a visiting professor in Italy, Mexico, Venezuela, Chile, Ecuador, and Argentina.
Content
Contents: Juan Rey: Much more than Bodies - Maria del Mar Rubio-Hernandez/Javier Lozano Delmar: Mythical Bodies: Masculine Archetypes of Classical Mythology in Advertising - Maria del Mar Ramirez 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 - Maria Victoria Carrillo Duran: Body and Beauty: The Cult of the Male Body in the Printed Press - Carlos Fanjul Peyro/Cristina Gonzalez Onate: Obsessed Bodies: Influence of Advertising Male Models on Bigorexia - Salome 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 - Victor Hernandez-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 - Lucia Caro Castano: Translated Bodies: The Hyper-Ritualization in the Representation of the Male Body among Spanish Youth in Social Networking Sites - Victor Hernandez-Santaolalla: Different Bodies, Different Men.