Melissa Zimdars

Watching Our Weights

The Contradictions of Televising Fatness in the "Obesity Epidemic"

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
1          Televising Fatness
2          Competing Understandings of Fatness
3          Does TV Make You Fat?: Television as Causing and Solving the
“Obesity Epidemic”   
4          The Globesity Epidemic: Adapting Weight-Loss Television Around
the World
5          Exercising Control and the Illogics of Weight-Loss Television
6          Spectacle, Sympathy, and the Medicalized Disease of
“Obesity”    
7          Celebrating Large Bodies on the Small Screen: From Fat
Visibility to Fat
Acceptance
8          The Decline of The Biggest Loser      
Acknowledgments
Index