Food, media and contemporary culture : the edible image / edited by Peri Bradley, Bournemouth University, UK.
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.
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY :
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2016.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.