The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery - part 7 pps
The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery - part 7 pps
... plastic surgery in the
first place.
23
The impossibility of the surgery the film represents is ir-
relevant, because in the end the film is about the restoration of the im-
age itself. The star becomes ... Actors turned to surgery in order to transform themselves into
camera-ready images, which yoked the history of cosmetic surgery to
the history of acti...
The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery - part 1 pps
... the emergence of the female
nude as the favorite subject of nineteenth-century painting, which sug-
gests not only the new centrality of the female body as the object of the
gaze but also the ... surgeons do. They see the defect from the other side of the room.
The defect (or deformity, as they term it) hails them, flags them down,
implores their assistance...
The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery - part 4 pps
... called the cosmetic-
surgery solution the aging body-in-masquerade” (“From Virtual Cy-
borgs” 165). The surface of the body,” she points out, “is cut and
stretched to disguise the surface of the ... that the surface of the body enacts the object relation it-
self. The mirror reflected to these women the image of their tortured
histories with their parents. But...
The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery - part 5 pps
... difference of sexes; of the birth and growth of children; how the
fa
ther doted on the smiles of the infant, and the lively sallies of the
older child; how all the life and cares of the mother were ... yet separated off from the
infant by the infant. Gradually the separating-off of the not-me from the
me takes place, and the pace varies according...
The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery - part 10 pps
... Anthony, 276
narcissism: and becoming-celebrity,
174 ; of celebr
it
y culture, 150–51; of
children, 169; cosmetic surgeons and,
274 75 ; cosmetic surgery as tempo-
rary gratification of, 280 ... Gwyneth, 176 77
Parton, Dolly, 179
patients: author’s interviews with,
45– 47; and class, 1 07 8, 293n8;
with cleft palate, 271 72 ; efforts to
broaden population of, 297n1; nar...
The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery - part 2 potx
... account, in part, for the recent increase in the num-
bers of patients requesting cosmetic plastic surgery who have previously
undergone cosmetic surgery procedures on other parts of their bodies”
(231). ... amount of
popularity. The nose job of the teenaged middle-class Jewish girl be-
came a rite of passage. What was wanted, however, was an extreme ver-
sion o...
The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery - part 3 pptx
... happens on the surface of the body as well the love for the penis
supplanting the object relation. The deception at the heart of Freudian
accounts of sexual difference, then, would be that the overvalued ... in the other hand
or the penis grows from the other orifice, as it were, and Rose is the re-
combinant nightmare fallout of plastic surgery s otherwise c...
The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery - part 6 pdf
... however, there is a profound effect
on the culture of linking cosmetic surgery to the faces and bodies of ac-
tors. This is their depth and their surface—what’s hidden (secret) and
at the same ... compromise the authenticity of the original. Although the original
work is untouched, the quality of its presence is always depreciated”
(221). The authenticity of...
The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery - part 8 doc
... adore their surgeons often visit other surgeons, be-
cause when the nature of the subject is a certain experience of perfec-
tion, it’s hard to believe you’ve found it in either the result or the ... in part because of the incommensurability of the outcome to
the expectations that people can become addicted to surgery. The ad-
diction is built into the practice....
The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery - part 9 docx
... Postcards from the
Edge. Actress Suzanne overhears the head of wardrobe complaining to
the director about the difficulties of tailoring clothing for the actress’s
out -of- shape body. They can’t ... and another. So much of what we take to be hu-
man lives on the surface of the face. So, when you raise the skin, Adams argues,
you realize the deception of the fac...