Bernadette Wegenstein

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Bernadette Wegenstein

Bernadette Wegenstein (* 1969 ) is an Austrian research professor and director at the Center for Advanced Media Studies at Johns Hopkins University . She is the author of books on media theories.

biography

Wegenstein received her doctorate in 1998 from the University of Vienna with a thesis on the representation of AIDS in the media: semio-linguistic analysis and interpretation ( The portrayal of AIDS in the media: linguistic semiotic analysis and interpretation ). She then became an assistant professor at the University at Buffalo . She currently holds a research professorship at Johns Hopkins University, where she also heads the Center for Advanced Media Studies.

In 2007, Bernadette Wegenstein produced and directed her first documentary Made Over in America (Icarus Films) on the TV cosmetic surgery show The Swan (film). She co-directed her second film See You Soon Again with Austrian director and producer Lukas Stepanik (The Cinema Guild, 2012). The film is a portrait of the Vienna Holocaust survivor Leo Bretholz in his efforts to convey his survival story to the youth of Baltimore. She is currently in post-production with two documentaries: The Good Breast (working title), a documentary that combines the intimate stories of three breast cancer patients with the history and mythology of the breast. The film brings together her expertise in the history of the body and the culture of cosmetic surgery with her passion for the person-centered cinéma vérité genre; and the short documentation, Devoti Tutti , is a neorealistic exploration of the little-known breast cancer case of Saint Agatha of Catania , who became a martyr through her breast sacrifice in AD 251. The film is an immersion in the devotional culture surrounding the annual celebration of St. Agatha in Catania, Sicily.

In her book The Cosmetic Gaze , she analyzes the body as a medium of gaze. The most obvious example of this mechanism is the cosmetic surgery reality TV show, The Swan , in which participants are "beautified" and thus faced with drastic changes.

Works (selection)

Books
Book chapter
  • Making room for the body: From fragmentation to meditation (nonfiction). In: Mary Flanagan: re: skin. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts / London 2009, ISBN 978-0-262-51249-7 , pp. 81-102.
  • (2010), Body In: WJT Mitchell , Mark BN Hansen: Critical terms for media studies. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago / London, ISBN 978-0-226-53266-0 , pp. 19-34.
Newspaper articles

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wegenstein, Bernadette. Library of Congress, accessed on March 22, 2015 ((Bernadette Wegenstein) p. 78 (b. 1969; since 2008 assoc. Prof. At Johns Hopkins Univ.)).
  2. ↑ Bernadette Wegenstein: The representation of AIDS in the media: semi-linguistic analysis and interpretation (= dissertations of the University of Vienna. 42). WUV-Univ.-Verlag, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85114-402-3 .
  3. ↑ Jody Shipka: Getting Under the Skin: Body and Media Theory. Bernadette Wegenstein (Cambridge: MIT P, 2006. 211 pages). In: Convergence. Volume 27, No. 3-4, 2007, pp. 862-866 jaconlinejournal.com (PDF) JSTOR 20866820 .
  4. ↑ The cosmetic gaze: body modification and the construction of beauty. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2012, ISBN 978-0-262-23267-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Wegenstein, Bernadette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian media scientist, director of the Center for Advanced Media Studies at Johns Hopkins University
DATE OF BIRTH 1969