Bernadette Wegenstein
{{short description|Austrian media theorist}}
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Bernadette Wegenstein (born 1969){{cite web |title= Wegenstein, Bernadette |url= http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb98083656.html |publisher= Library of Congress |access-date= 22 March 2015 |quote= (Bernadette Wegenstein) p. 78 (b. 1969; since 2008 assoc. prof. at Johns Hopkins Univ.) }} is a Research Professor and director of the Center for Advanced Media Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She has written books on media theory including Getting Under the Skin: Body and Media Theory, The Cosmetic Gaze: Body Modification and the Construction of Beauty.{{ cite web | title = Authors: Bernadette Wegenstein | publisher = MIT Press | url = http://mitpress.mit.edu/authors/bernadette-wegenstein }}
Biography
She received a doctorate from University of Vienna in 1998 with a thesis "Die Darstellung von Aids in den Medien : semio-linguistische Analyse und Interpretation" ("The portrayal of AIDS in the media: linguistic semiotic analysis and interpretation") Copies of the thesis are held in WorldCat libraries.{{cite thesis | type = Ph.D. | last = Wegenstein | first = Bernadette | title = Die Darstellung von Aids in den Medien : semio-linguistische Analyse und Interpretation |publisher=University of Vienna |year=1998 |oclc=40362325}} she subsequently became an assistant professor at the University of Buffalo.{{Cite journal | last = Shipka | first = Jody | title = Getting Under the Skin: Body and Media Theory, Bernadette Wegenstein (Cambridge: MIT P, 2006. 211 pages) | journal = Convergence | volume = 27 | issue = 3–4 | pages = 862–866 | publisher = JAC | date = 2007 | url = http://www.jaconlinejournal.com/archives/vol27.3-4/shipka-getting.pdf | jstor = 20866820 | access-date = 2015-03-22 | archive-date = 2015-04-02 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150402141156/http://www.jaconlinejournal.com/archives/vol27.3-4/shipka-getting.pdf | url-status = dead }} She is currently a Research Professor at the Johns Hopkins University, where she also directs the Center for Advanced Media Studies.
Bernadette produced and directed her first documentary Made Over in America (Icarusfilms) about the television makeover show The Swan (TV series) in 2007. Her second film, See You Soon Again, which she co-directed with the Austrian director and producer Lukas Stepanik (The Cinema Guild, 2012) is a portrait of Viennese Holocaust survivor Leo Bretholz in his efforts to pass on his story of survival to the Baltimore youth. She is currently in post-production with two feature documentaries: The Good Breast (working title), a feature documentary that interweaves the intimate stories of three breast cancer patients with the history and mythology of the breast. The film brings together her expertise on the history of the body and makeover culture with her passion for the character-driven cinéma vérité genre; and the documentary short, Devoti Tutti, is a neo-realist exploration of the little known breast cancer patron Saint Agatha of Sicily who was martyrized by her breast sacrifice in 251 AD. The film is an immersion into the devotional culture around the yearly celebration of Saint Agatha in Catania, Sicily.
In her book The Cosmetic Gaze she analyzes the body as a medium of the gaze. This medium is best exemplified in Reality TV makeover shows, such as The Swan where contestants are made over and revealed with drastic changes.
Bibliography
= Books =
- {{cite book | last = Wegenstein | first = Bernadette | title = The cosmetic gaze: body modification and the construction of beauty | publisher = MIT Press | location = Cambridge, Massachusetts | year = 2012 | isbn = 9780262232678 }} According to WorldCat, the book is held in 284 libraries.{{cite book | last = Wegenstein | first = Bernadette | title = The cosmetic gaze: body modification and the construction of beauty | publisher = MIT Press | location = Cambridge, Massachusetts | year = 2012 | oclc = 746618783 }}
- Review: {{Cite journal | last = Uden | first = Eline van | title = The cosmetic gaze: Body modification and the construction of beauty, Bernadette Wegenstein. MIT Press (2012), (240 pages. ISBN 0262232677. ISBN 978-0262232678) | journal = Women's Studies International Forum | volume = 38 | pages = 151–152 | doi = 10.1016/j.wsif.2013.02.007 | date = May–June 2013 }}
- {{cite book | last = Wegenstein | first = Bernadette | title = Getting under the skin the body and media theory | publisher = MIT Press| location = Cambridge, Massachusetts | year = 2006 | isbn = 9780262232470 }} According to WorldCat, the book is held in 964 libraries {{cite book | last = Wegenstein | first = Bernadette | title = Getting under the skin the body and media theory | publisher = MIT Press| location = Cambridge, Massachusetts | year = 2006 | oclc = 61253981 }}
- Review: {{Cite journal | last = Nicholas | first = Lucy | title = Book Review: Bernadette Wegenstein. Getting Under the Skin: Body and Media Theory. London: MIT Press, 2006, xxii plus 211 pages, £24.95. ISBN 0 262 23247 2 (hbk) | journal = Convergence | volume = 13 | issue = 3 | pages = 325–326 | doi = 10.1177/13548565070130030804 | date = August 2007 | s2cid = 144308195 }}
- Review: {{Cite journal | last = Shipka | first = Jody | title = Getting Under the Skin: Body and Media Theory, Bernadette Wegenstein (Cambridge: MIT P, 2006. 211 pages) | journal = Convergence | volume = 27 | issue = 3–4 | pages = 862–866 | publisher = JAC | date = 2007 | url = http://www.jaconlinejournal.com/archives/vol27.3-4/shipka-getting.pdf | jstor = 20866820 | access-date = 2015-03-22 | archive-date = 2015-04-02 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150402141156/http://www.jaconlinejournal.com/archives/vol27.3-4/shipka-getting.pdf | url-status = dead }}
= Book chapters =
- {{citation | last = Wegenstein | first = Bernadette | contribution = Making room for the body: From fragmentation to meditation (nonfiction) | editor-last = Flanagan | editor-first = Mary | title = re:skin | pages = 81–102 | publisher = MIT Press | location = Cambridge, Massachusetts London | year = 2009 | isbn = 9780262512497 | postscript = .}}
- {{citation | last = Wegenstein | first = Bernadette | contribution = Body | editor-last1 = Mitchell | editor-first1 = W. J. T. | editor-last2 = Hansen | editor-first2 = Mark B. N. | editor-link1 = W. J. T. Mitchell | title = Critical terms for media studies | pages = 19–34 | publisher = The University of Chicago Press | location = Chicago London | year = 2010 | isbn = 9780226532660 | postscript = .}}
= Journal articles =
- {{Cite journal | last = Wegenstein | first = Bernadette| title = Getting under the skin, or, How faces have become obsolete | journal = Configurations | volume = 10 | issue = 2 | pages = 221–259 | doi = 10.1353/con.2003.0018 | date = Spring 2002 }}
- {{Cite web | last = Wegenstein | first = Bernadette | title = Recently edited: Cosmetic surgery: Medicine, culture, beauty | website = bernadettewegenstein.com | format = blog | date = 27 August 2011 | url = http://bernadettewegenstein.com/2011/08/27/recently-edited-cosmetic-surgery-medicine-culture-beauty/ }}
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