Food, Media and Contemporary Culture : The Edible Image / / edited by Peri Bradley

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2016.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/6564
• Soggetto topico: Ethnology; Culture; Communication; Food science; Social sciences; Regional Cultural Studies; Media and Communication; Food Science; Society
• Persona (resp. second.): BradleyPeri
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Peri Bradley -- Food, representation and identity. 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 -- You are what you eat: film narratives and the transformational function of food / Craig Batty -- Benidorm, taste and the "all you can eat" buffet: body, class and sexuality / Chris Pullen -- Ruth eats, Betty vomits: feminism, bioculture, and trouble with food / Marsha Cassidy -- A woman's place is in the kitchen: gender, food and television in the UK / Charley Packham -- Food, consumption and audience. A pinch of ethics and a soupçon of home cooking: soft-selling supermarkets on food television / Tania Lewis and Michelle Phillipov -- "Meats meat, and a man's gotta eat." (Motel hell 1980): food and eating within contemporary horror film and horror film cultures / Shaun Kimber -- Cooking on reality tv: chef-participants and culinary television / Hugh Curnutt -- Disorderly eating and eating disorders: the demonic possession film as anorexia allegory / Mark Bernard -- Food, sex and pleasure. Digesting Steven Spielberg / Murray Pomerance -- Digesting the image: carnal appetites in the films of Bigas Luna / Abigail Loxham -- Dining as a "limit experience": jouissance and gastronomic pleasure as cinematographic and cultural phenomena / Brendon Wocke -- Food porn: the conspicuous consumption of food in the age of digital reproduction / Erin Metz McDonnell.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Food, Media and Contemporary Culture
• ISBN: 9781137463234; 1137463236
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910255240303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II