Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 282 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781350119390
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9781350114579
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9781350114579
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9781350191662
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135011457X
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1350114588
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9781350114586
Series Statement:
Library of Gender and Popular Culture
Content:
A critical theorization of fatness -- The de-masculinized fat male -- Female fatness as non-normative femininity -- The funny fat body: Slapstick and gross-out -- The fat eater: Food and eating -- The fat outsider.
Content:
"Over the last two decades, fatness has become the focus of ubiquitous negative rhetoric, in the USA and beyond, presented under the cover of the medicalized ''war against the obesity epidemic''. In Fat on Film , Barbara Plotz provides a critical analysis of the cinematic representation of fatness during this timeframe, specifically in contemporary Hollywood cinema, with an emphasis on the intersection of gender, race and fatness. The analysis is based on around 50 films released since 2000 and includes examples such as Transformers (2007), Precious (2009), Kung Fu Panda (2008), Paul Blart (2009) and Pitch Perfect (2012).Plotz maps the common cinematic tropes of fatness and also shows how commonplace notions of fatness that are part of the current ''obesity epidemic'' discourse are reflected in these tropes. In this original study, Plotz brings critical attention to the politics of fat representation, a topic that has so far received little attention within film and cinema studies."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Barrierefreier Inhalt: Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350114586
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Plotz, Barbara Fat on Film : Gender, Race and Body Size in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, ©2020 ISBN 9781350114586
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350119390
