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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Infomercial"”.
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Inspiring or Perpetuating Stereotypes?: The Complicated Case of Disability as Inspiration
… project uses We're The Superhumans, a British infomercial for the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, as its case study. This research is informed by social science research on disability, critical media studies literature, as well as government documents and official reports. …
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Beaut-Ease
… that are a hybrid between beauty products and infomercial products. Both industries flourish on a level of falsehood that teeters on the brink of hilarity.
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Using a birth ball in the latent phase of labour to reduce pain perception; a randomised controlled trial.
… admission or obstetric intervention. An animated infomercial was developed to promote birth ball use at home in the latent phase of labour to enhance women's self-efficacy, in order to reduce their pain perception. As a pragmatic randomised controlled single centre trial, 294 low risk women were …
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Consuming Lifestyles: Transforming the Body and the Self in Postfeminist America
… 1980s and 1990s America: actress Jane Fonda, infomercial queen Susan Powter, and talk show host Oprah Winfrey. I point to the troubling effects of the articulations between feminism and fitness and examine the contemporary American therapeutic cultures of recovery and renewal and what has come …