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Bite Me: Food in Popular Culture

Autor Professor Fabio Parasecoli
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 aug 2008
Food is not only something we eat, it is something we use to define ourselves. Ingestion and incorporation are central to our connection with the world outside our bodies. Food's powerful social, economic, political and symbolic roles cannot be ignored - what we eat is a marker of power, cultural capital, class, ethnic and racial identity.Bite Me considers the ways in which popular culture reveals our relationship with food and our own bodies and how these have become an arena for political and ideological battles. Drawing on an extraordinary range of material - films, books, comics, songs, music videos, websites, slang, performances, advertising and mass-produced objects - Bite Me invites the reader to take a fresh look at today's products and practices to see how much food shapes our lives, perceptions and identities.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781845207625
ISBN-10: 1845207629
Pagini: 176
Ilustrații: bibliography, index
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Berg Publishers
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Also available in paperback, 9781845207618 £16.99 (September, 2008)

Notă biografică

Fabio Parasecoli is President of the Association for the Study of Food and Society and teaches on food history, culture and the arts at the Città del Gusto School in Rome and at New York University. He is also a journalist for the food and wine magazine Gambero Rosso and author of Food Culture in Italy.

Cuprins

Chapter 1: Introduction: Pop Culture Drama: Food and Body PoliticsChapter 2: Hungry Memories: Food, the Brain and the Consuming SelfChapter 3: Of Breasts and Beasts: Vampires and other Voracious MonstersChapter 4: Tasty Utopia: Food and Politics in Science FictionChapter 5: Quilting the Empty Body: Food and DietingChapter 6: Jam, Juice, and Strange Fruit: Edible Black BodiesChapter 7: Tourism and Taste: Exploring IdentitiesAfterword: A Plea for Pleasure

Recenzii

In Bite Me, Fabio Parasecoli gives us a riveting tour of the role of food in popular culture. Parasecoli takes a fresh and wonderfully analytical look at the deeper societal meanings of such matters as vampires, South Park, and the Atkins diet - subjects not often perceived as grist for scholarly mills. Never has semiotics been so much fun.
Parasecoli's analysis takes on vampires, aliens, body builders and booty, rap lyrics, and culinary tourism in a whirlwind ride that is deeply engaging, genuinely impassioned, and refreshingly saucy.
Parasecoli is a scholar with a heart. His writing is genuinely brilliant and genuinely genuine; his approach is refreshing, with lively and original material. Bite Me is an important book that will gain relevance as we advance into the frenetic zone of our century's second decade. There is little doubt that Parasecoli will be at the forefront with all the lines of communication and media open and at the ready.