Exam 7: Embodiment, Beauty, and the Viewer

What television show made the "bronzed beach look" popular during the 1970s?

How are body images in visual media constructed to produce fragmentation or the diminution of a person to a specific human body part?

Why did film historian Donald Bogle contend that actor Sidney Poitier embodied the perfect representation for the "integrationist age" in American history?

Who was Anna May Wong and why was she regarded as glamorous and exotic in the Hollywood film industry?

Which slim male celebrity appeared on People magazine list of the sexiest man alive within the period from 2000 to 2015?

Who said this comment: "Black is beautiful didn't overcome everything."

Who was the Gibson Girl? Why was she regarded in the public as the epitome of the "New Woman" image of the 1890s?

Which Hollywood movie star during the 1950s personified the "masculine ideal" reminiscent of an earlier, popular "broad-shouldered" image of the Arrow Collar Man?

Which Latina actress has been credited as being Hollywood's first Latina star?

Define the term commodification in viewing gendered bodies. Why do some scholars argue that commodification is not always negative while others insist that it denigrates humankind and remains offensive?

The HAES (Health at Every Size) movement advocates an end to weight bias.

Which athlete epitomized the youthful, muscular male image popularized during the 1890s?

What historic social, cultural, and political factors gave rise to the popularity of the "Black is Beautiful" movement in the United States?

According to sociologist Thorstein Veblen, how does class status and power determine what is stylish in relation to attire and body shape?

Describe the depiction of the "Retributive Man" character in 1980s Hollywood films. How does it personify the social-cultural and political crisis of masculinity in American society that persists today?