Food, Media and Contemporary Culture: The Edible Image

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