Поступления иностранных книг в библиотеки ННЦ в 2003 г.
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Bordo S. Twilight zones: The hidden life of cultural images from Plato to O.J. - Berkeley et al.: Univ. of California press, 1997. - X, 279 p.: ill.(ISBN 0-520-21101-4) - Сумеречные зоны: тайная жизнь культурных имиджей
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- While the notion of our society as an image-saturated one is hardly news, the implications are rarely discussed in such an engaging and refreshing fashion as they are Bordo's work. The argument that the images from movies or in magazines are "just pictures" (a claim made by magazine editors and movie executives) holds little weight with Bordo, instead she argues that they reconstruct notions of "reality" and "truth" and profoundly affect the bodily, sexual, emotional and political aspects of our lives. Bordo considers these effects through her discussion of an eclectic but cohesive collection of cultural symbols, including Nike ads (the Just Do It! slogan is one of the few moral codes that is shared in our culture), emaciated models, surgically altered breasts, the culture wars, and the O.J. Simpson trial. One of the underlying ideas that runs throughout these essays is that these images serve to narrow or cariacturize conceptions of beauty, success, and "reality." Thus, popular images of women (always thin and "perfect") have created a culture obsessed with the body, willing to undergo surgery after surgery to achieve an ideal sense of perfection. Likewise films such as "Disclosure" or the Clarence Hill hearings and of course the O.J. Simpson case (the latter two, very much media events and thus, its participants were very image-conscious), have established notions of sexuality and race. The final essay "Missing Kitchens," a collaborative essay with her sisters, explores notions of bodies, place, and space through a moving recreation of the topographies of their childhood, concluding an already stunning collection.
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