Bite me : food in popular culture / / Fabio Parasecoli
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| Autore: |
Parasecoli Fabio
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| Titolo: |
Bite me : food in popular culture / / Fabio Parasecoli
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, New York : , : Berg, , [2008] |
| ©2008 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 394.12 |
| Soggetto topico: | Food - Social aspects |
| Food habits | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-164) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Pop Culture DramaFood and Body Politics; -1-Hungry MemoriesFood, the Brain, and the Consuming Self; -2-Of Breasts and BeastsVampires and Other Voracious Monsters; -3-Tasty UtopiasFood and Politics in Science Fiction Novels; - 4-Quilting the Empty BodyFood and Dieting; -5-Jam, Juice, and Strange FruitsEdible Black Bodies; -6-Tourism and TasteExploring Identities; Afterword: A Plea for Pleasure; References; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Food is not only something we eat, it is something we use to define ourselves. This title considers the ways in which popular culture reveals our relationship with food and our own bodies and how these have become an arena for political and ideological battles. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Bite me |
| ISBN: | 1-282-28596-3 |
| 9786612285967 | |
| 1-84788-453-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454065803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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