Food, Media and Contemporary Culture

Introduction; Peri Bradley<BR>PART I: FOOD, REPRESENTATION AND IDENTITY<BR>1. More Cake Please – We're British!: Locating British Identity In Contemporary TV Food Texts, The Great British Bake Off And Come Dine With Me; Peri Bradley<BR>2. You Are What You Eat: Film Narratives And The Transformational Function Of Food; Craig Batty<BR>3. Benidorm, Taste And The 'All You Can Eat' Buffet: Body, Class And Sexuality; Chris Pullen<BR>4. Ruth Eats, Betty Vomits: Feminism, Bioculture, And Trouble With Food; Marsha Cassidy <BR>5. A Woman's Place Is In The Kitchen?: Gender, Food And Television In The UK; Charley Packham<BR>PART II: FOOD, CONSUMPTION AND AUDIENCE<BR>6. A Pinch Of Ethics And A Soupçon Of Home Cooking: Soft-Selling Supermarkets On Food Television; Tania Lewis And Michelle Phillipov<BR>7. "Meats Meat, And A Man's Gotta Eat." (Motel Hell 1980): Food And Eating Within Contemporary Horror Film And Horror Film Cultures; Shaun Kimber<BR>8. Cooking On Reality TV: Chef-Participants And Culinary Television; Hugh Curnutt<BR>9. Disorderly Eating And Eating Disorders: The Demonic Possession Film As Anorexia Allegory; Mark Bernard<BR>PART III: FOOD, SEX AND PLEASURE<BR>10. Digesting Steven Spielberg; Murray Pomerance<BR>11. Digesting The Image: Carnal Appetites In The Films Of Bigas Luna; Abigail Loxham<BR>12. Dining As A 'Limit Experience': Jouissance And Gastronomic Pleasure As Cinematographic And Cultural Phenomena; Brendon Wocke<BR>13. Food Porn: The Conspicuous Consumption Of Food In The Age Of Digital Reproduction; Erin Metz Mcdonnell