Food, Media and Contemporary Culture

The Edible Image
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-46322-7
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 520 g

Food, Media and Contemporary Culture is designed to interrogate the cultural fascination with food as the focus of a growing number of visual texts that reveal the deep, psychological relationship that each of us has with rituals of preparing, presenting and consuming food and images of food.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bradley, Peri

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Ökotrophologie (Ernährungs- und Haushaltswissenschaften)
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften: Ernährung & Gesellschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Peri Bradley
PART I: FOOD, REPRESENTATION AND IDENTITY
1. More Cake Please – We're British!: Locating British Identity In Contemporary TV Food Texts, The Great British Bake Off And Come Dine With Me; Peri Bradley
2. You Are What You Eat: Film Narratives And The Transformational Function Of Food; Craig Batty
3. Benidorm, Taste And The 'All You Can Eat' Buffet: Body, Class And Sexuality; Chris Pullen
4. Ruth Eats, Betty Vomits: Feminism, Bioculture, And Trouble With Food; Marsha Cassidy
5. A Woman's Place Is In The Kitchen?: Gender, Food And Television In The UK; Charley Packham
PART II: FOOD, CONSUMPTION AND AUDIENCE
6. A Pinch Of Ethics And A Soupçon Of Home Cooking: Soft-Selling Supermarkets On Food Television; Tania Lewis And Michelle Phillipov
7. "Meats Meat, And A Man's Gotta Eat." (Motel Hell 1980): Food And Eating Within Contemporary Horror Film And Horror Film Cultures; Shaun Kimber
8. Cooking On Reality TV: Chef-Participants And Culinary Television; Hugh Curnutt
9. Disorderly Eating And Eating Disorders: The Demonic Possession Film As Anorexia Allegory; Mark Bernard
PART III: FOOD, SEX AND PLEASURE
10. Digesting Steven Spielberg; Murray Pomerance
11. Digesting The Image: Carnal Appetites In The Films Of Bigas Luna; Abigail Loxham
12. Dining As A 'Limit Experience': Jouissance And Gastronomic Pleasure As Cinematographic And Cultural Phenomena; Brendon Wocke
13. Food Porn: The Conspicuous Consumption Of Food In The Age Of Digital Reproduction; Erin Metz Mcdonnell

Über Autor(innen)

Craig Batty, RMIT University, Australia

Mark Bernard, University of North Carolina, USA

Marsha Cassidy, University of Illinois, USA

Hugh Curnutt, Montclair State University, USA

Shaun Kimber, Bournemouth University, UK

Tania Lewis, RMIT University, Australia

Abigail Loxham, University of Queensland, Australia

Erin Metz McDonnell, University of Notre Dame, USA

Charley Packham, Bournemouth University, UK

Michelle Phillipov, University of Tasmania, Australia

Murray Pomerance, Ryerson University, Canada

Christopher Pullen, Bournemouth University, UK

Brendon Wocke, University of Bergamo, Italy