Food, Media and Contemporary Culture : The Edible Image

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-5 Front Matter....Pages 7-7 More Cake Please — We’re British! Locating British Identity in Contemporary TV Food Texts, The Great British Bake Off and Come Dine With Me....Pages 9-26 You Are What You Eat: Film Narratives and the Transformational Function of Food....Pages 27-43 Benidorm and the ‘All You Can Eat’ Buffet: Food, Bodily Functions and the Carnivalesque....Pages 44-64 Ruth Eats, Betty Vomits: Feminism, Bioculture and Trouble with Food....Pages 65-82 A Woman’s Place Is in the Kitchen? The Relationship Between Gender, Food and Television....Pages 83-102 Front Matter....Pages 103-103 A Pinch of Ethics and a Soupçon of Home Cooking: Soft-Selling Supermarkets on Food Television....Pages 105-124 ‘Meat’s meat, and a man’s gotta eat.’ (Motel Hell, 1980): Food and Eating Within Contemporary Horror Cultures....Pages 125-143 Cooking on Reality TV: Chef-Participants and Culinary Television....Pages 144-163 Disorderly Eating and Eating Disorders: The Demonic Possession Film as Anorexia Allegory....Pages 164-182 Front Matter....Pages 183-183 A Taste of Steven Spielberg....Pages 185-202 Digesting the Image: Carnal Appetites and Ethical Consumption in the Work of Bigas Luna....Pages 203-219 Dining as a ‘Limit Experience’: Jouissance and Gastronomic Pleasure as Cinematographic and Cultural Phenomena....Pages 220-238 Food Porn: The Conspicuous Consumption of Food in the Age of Digital Reproduction....Pages 239-265 Back Matter....Pages 266-274