La presse fashion et le problème de l'anorexie

Résumé du document

Every young girl has one day wanted to see her frame on the first page of a fashion magazine. Actually these teenagers don't know yet that the business of fashion is not what it seems to be and that the life of models is not as bright as they think. Drugs and diseases are also a part of it. These points are underlined in the articles we are going to collate.

The first one is entitled "Young Models Dying to be Skinny" written by Simon Hooper and published by CNN London on 19th September 2006. The second, published on 21st January 2007 has for title "Bundchen: Families, not Fashion to Blame for Anorexia"; and the third "Brazil model who Battled Anorexia Dies" was published on 16th November 2006. Both are extracted from the Associated Press and more precisely from Sao Paolo, a famous Brazilian city.

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[...] The first one is entitled “Young Models Dying to be Skinny” written by Simon Hooper and published by CNN London on 19th September 2006. The second, published on 21st January 2007 has for title “Bundchen: Families, not Fashion to Blame for Anorexia”; and the third “Brazil model who Battled Anorexia Dies” was published on 16th November 2006. Both are extracted from the Associated Press and more precisely from Sao Paolo, a famous Brazilian city. In this essay, we will first see which issues are dealt, and then move on to how they are dealt. I. [...]

[...] So, a series of events can cause unexpected reactions and reveal some problems present before but avoided, deliberately or not. To summarize, in reference to the articles, anorexia would have a real link with the fashion industry and with the models' family. However, the debates don't have an answer yet and are still opened. II. Information processing in the articles. Whatever the issues the articles are about, the way of dealing with them is never innocent. Each word has its own importance where it is, the sense that it gives to the sentence and the reporter knows which rules he has to use on order to have the wanted impact on the reader Catching readers' attention strategies. [...]

[...] La presse fashion et le problème de l'anorexie Contents I. Arguments developed in the articles. p The problem of the appearance. p The problem of the responsibility. p The origin of such debates. p II. Information processing in the articles. p Catching readers' attention strategies. p Information details. p Subjectivity of the articles. [...]

[...] The information is condensed in one sentence and the lead answers to these questions who, when, what, where, and how. Someone who only reads it, have the main information and the main ideas of the articles. This strategy is very convenient for people who don't have the time to read a whole newspaper, they pick up the more relevant issues of each articles and it seems as if they had read them entirely. To illustrate it, one of Bundchen's quotations - parents are responsible, not fashion” - is the only idea to remember. [...]

[...] Some articles deal with whole debates by giving different point of views and by comparing them, whereas others are only focused on one opinion. Consequently, the information is less neutral, thorough and exhaustive. All these three articles bring up a more philosophical debate on beauty and a more ethical issue on fashion industry. As far as we are concerned, the link between fashion and anorexia is more obvious than how it is presented in the articles. The power and the pression of the fashion industry plays a large role on the definition of beauty. [...]