Transforming Images: Screens, affect, futures

Contemporary society and culture are increasingly described in terms of change, mobility and vitality. Within this context, the body is seen as a key site of transformation.#xE3;#xAC;#xAC; Transforming Imagesexamines how the future functions within this transformative logic to indicate the potential of a materially better time and explores the role that images play in organising what futures are considered appealing, and to whom. The book draws on the recent #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;turn#xE2;#xAC;" to affect to develop a framework for understanding images not so much as #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;texts#xE2;#xAC;" to be #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;read#xE2;#xAC;" but as felt and lived out. Analysing the screens of shopping, makeover television programmes, online dieting plans and government health campaign, it traces how images of self-transformation bring the future into the present and affectively #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;draw in#xE2;#xAC;" some bodies more than others. It will therefore be of interest to scholars and students working in Sociology, Media and Cultural Studies and Gender Studies.