Food, Media and Contemporary Culture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Peri Bradley

      Pages 1-5

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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.

• Design
• ethics
• feminism
• film
• food
• gender
• identity
• Image
• Nation
• Sex
• television
• transformation

• Bournemouth University, UK

  Peri Bradley

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

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