Name: Food, Media and Contemporary Culture
ISBN: 978-1-137-46323-4

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Peri Bradley⁰

Peri Bradley
1. Bournemouth University, UK
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xii

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Introduction
1. Introduction
  
  Peri Bradley
  
  Pages 1-5
Food, Representation and Identity
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 7-7
  
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2. 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
  
  Pages 9-26
3. You Are What You Eat: Film Narratives and the Transformational Function of Food
  
  Craig Batty
  
  Pages 27-43
4. Benidorm and the ‘All You Can Eat’ Buffet: Food, Bodily Functions and the Carnivalesque
  
  Christopher Pullen
  
  Pages 44-64
5. Ruth Eats, Betty Vomits: Feminism, Bioculture and Trouble with Food
  
  Marsha F. Cassidy
  
  Pages 65-82
6. A Woman’s Place Is in the Kitchen? The Relationship Between Gender, Food and Television
  
  Charley Packham
  
  Pages 83-102
Food, Consumption and Audience
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 103-103
  
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2. A Pinch of Ethics and a Soupçon of Home Cooking: Soft-Selling Supermarkets on Food Television
  
  Tania Lewis, Michelle Phillipov
  
  Pages 105-124
3. ‘Meat’s meat, and a man’s gotta eat.’ (Motel Hell, 1980): Food and Eating Within Contemporary Horror Cultures
  
  Shaun Kimber
  
  Pages 125-143
4. Cooking on Reality TV: Chef-Participants and Culinary Television
  
  Hugh Curnutt
  
  Pages 144-163
5. Disorderly Eating and Eating Disorders: The Demonic Possession Film as Anorexia Allegory
  
  Mark Bernard
  
  Pages 164-182
Food, Sex and Pleasure
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 183-183
  
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2. A Taste of Steven Spielberg
  
  Murray Pomerance
  
  Pages 185-202
3. Digesting the Image: Carnal Appetites and Ethical Consumption in the Work of Bigas Luna
  
  Abigail Loxham
  
  Pages 203-219
4. Dining as a ‘Limit Experience’: Jouissance and Gastronomic Pleasure as Cinematographic and Cultural Phenomena
  
  Brendon Wocke
  
  Pages 220-238
5. Food Porn: The Conspicuous Consumption of Food in the Age of Digital Reproduction
  
  Erin Metz McDonnell
  
  Pages 239-265
Back Matter

Pages 266-274

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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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Bournemouth University, UK

Peri Bradley

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Craig Batty, RMIT University, Australia Mark Bernard, University of North Carolina, USA Marsha Cassidy, University of Illinois, USA Hugh Curnutt, Montclair State University, USA Shaun Kimber, Bournemouth University, UK Tania Lewis, RMIT University, Australia Abigail Loxham, University of Queensland, Australia Erin Metz McDonnell, University of Notre Dame, USA Charley Packham, Bournemouth University, UK Michelle Phillipov, University of Tasmania, Australia Murray Pomerance, Ryerson University, Canada Christopher Pullen, Bournemouth University, UK Brendon Wocke, University of Bergamo, Italy

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Food, Media and Contemporary Culture
Book Subtitle: The Edible Image
Editors: Peri Bradley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137463234
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-46322-7Published: 18 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-46323-4Published: 26 January 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 274
Topics: Regional and Cultural Studies, Media and Communication, Food Science, Media Studies, Social Sciences, general

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Introduction

Food, Representation and Identity

Front Matter

More Cake Please — We’re British! Locating British Identity in Contemporary TV Food Texts, The Great British Bake Off and Come Dine With Me

You Are What You Eat: Film Narratives and the Transformational Function of Food

Benidorm and the ‘All You Can Eat’ Buffet: Food, Bodily Functions and the Carnivalesque

Ruth Eats, Betty Vomits: Feminism, Bioculture and Trouble with Food

A Woman’s Place Is in the Kitchen? The Relationship Between Gender, Food and Television

Food, Consumption and Audience

Front Matter

A Pinch of Ethics and a Soupçon of Home Cooking: Soft-Selling Supermarkets on Food Television

‘Meat’s meat, and a man’s gotta eat.’ (Motel Hell, 1980): Food and Eating Within Contemporary Horror Cultures

Cooking on Reality TV: Chef-Participants and Culinary Television

Disorderly Eating and Eating Disorders: The Demonic Possession Film as Anorexia Allegory

Food, Sex and Pleasure

Front Matter

A Taste of Steven Spielberg

Digesting the Image: Carnal Appetites and Ethical Consumption in the Work of Bigas Luna

Dining as a ‘Limit Experience’: Jouissance and Gastronomic Pleasure as Cinematographic and Cultural Phenomena

Food Porn: The Conspicuous Consumption of Food in the Age of Digital Reproduction

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Bournemouth University, UK

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Introduction

Food, Representation and Identity

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Food, Consumption and Audience

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Food, Sex and Pleasure

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Bournemouth University, UK

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