Bite Me
Food in Popular Culture
Parasecoli, Fabio
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
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.
AUTHOR BIO
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Introduction: Pop Culture Drama: Food and Body Politics * Chapter 2: Hungry Memories: Food, the Brain and the Consuming Self * Chapter 3: Of Breasts and Beasts: Vampires and other Voracious Monsters * Chapter 4: Tasty Utopia: Food and Politics in Science Fiction * Chapter 5: Quilting the Empty Body: Food and Dieting * Chapter 6: Jam, Juice, and Strange Fruit: Edible Black Bodies * Chapter 7: Tourism and Taste: Exploring Identities * Afterword: A Plea for Pleasure
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1845207629
ISBN(13-digit): 9781845207625
Dewey Decimal: 394.1/2
Library of Congress: 2008024329
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 168
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