Melissa Zimdars

Gebundenes Buch

Watching Our Weights

The Contradictions of Televising Fatness in the "Obesity Epidemic"

Beschreibung

Examines the resistance inherent within TV representations and narratives of fatness as a global health issue, the inherent and overt resistance found across stories of medicalized fatness, and programs that actively avoid dieting narratives in favour of less oppressive ways of thinking about the fat body.

Autor

MELISSA ZIMDARS is an assistant professor of communication and media at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780813593555
• ISBN-10: 0813593557
• Artikelnr.: 52527822