Research Catalog

Title

Food, media and contemporary culture : the edible image / edited by Peri Bradley, Bournemouth University, UK.

Publication

• Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

Bradley, Peri, 1960-

Description

xii, 274 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• Television cooking shows > Great Britain > History and criticism
• Food on television
• Food in motion pictures
• Food > Social aspects > Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

MWGV (Great Britain) 16-208

ISBN

• 9781137463227
• 1137463228

LCCN

2015023254

OCLC

912872491

Title

Food, media and contemporary culture : the edible image / edited by Peri Bradley, Bournemouth University, UK.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Bradley, Peri, 1960- editor.

Research Call Number

MWGV (Great Britain) 16-208