Food, media and contemporary culture
Subtitle: the edible image
By: Peri Bradley, Bournemouth University, UK [editor]
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137463227
Subjects: Food; Food in motion pictures; Food on television; Television cooking shows; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Peri Bradley; title: 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; title: You are what you eat: film narratives and the transformational function of food / Craig Batty; title: Benidorm, taste and the "all you can eat" buffet: body, class and sexuality / Chris Pullen; title: Ruth eats, Betty vomits: feminism, bioculture, and trouble with food / Marsha Cassidy; title: A woman's place is in the kitchen: gender, food and television in the UK / Charley Packham; title: 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; title: "Meats meat, and a man's gotta eat." (Motel hell 1980): food and eating within contemporary horror film and horror film cultures / Shaun Kimber; title: Cooking on reality tv: chef-participants and culinary television / Hugh Curnutt; title: Disorderly eating and eating disorders: the demonic possession film as anorexia allegory / Mark Bernard; title: Food, sex and pleasure.  Digesting Steven Spielberg / Murray Pomerance; title: Digesting the image: carnal appetites in the films of Bigas Luna / Abigail Loxham; title: Dining as a "limit experience": jouissance and gastronomic pleasure as cinematographic and cultural phenomena / Brendon Wocke; title: Food porn: the conspicuous consumption of food in the age of digital reproduction / Erin Metz McDonnell.