Food, Media and Contemporary Culture [electronic resource] : The Edible Image /
Bradley, Peri.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Communication.
Food—Biotechnology.
Social sciences.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Media and Communication.
Food Science.
Media Studies.
Social Sciences, general.