Muscle-Mania: The Male Body Ideal in Professional Wrestling

Autor:	Danielle M. Soulliere, James A. Blair
Rok vydání:	2004
Předmět:	Potential impact Health consequences Multimedia Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health computer.software_genre Ideal (ethics) Developmental psychology Entertainment Health problems medicine medicine.symptom Body images Psychology Mania computer Body dissatisfaction
Zdroj:	International Journal of Men's Health. 5:268-286
ISSN:	1933-0278 1532-6306
DOI:	10.3149/jmh.0503.268
Popis:	Recent research suggests that men and boys are increasingly experiencing body dissatisfaction and may be at risk for developing other health problems resulting from exposure to idealized media images of the male body. On television, nowhere are men’s bodies more prominently on display than in professional wrestling. Qualitative content analyses of 118 episodes of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) programming, focusing on images and commentaries of male wrestling performers’ bodies, revealed that televised professional wrestling presents a “hyper-male” body ideal that constructs men’s bodies as big, strong, and muscular. The potential impact of exposure to such idealized body images on wrestling’s primarily male viewing audience, including possible health consequences, are explored and discussed. Future research examining television portrayals of men’s bodies, and the effects that such idealized male body media images may have on men and boys, is recommended.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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