Melissa Zimdars

Watching Our Weights

The Contradictions of Televising Fatness in the "Obesity Epidemic"

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the competing and contradictory fat representations on television that are related to weight-loss and health, medicalization and disease, and body positivity and fat acceptance. Watching Our Weights establishes both how television shapes our knowledge of fatness and how fatness helps us better understand contemporary television.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9780813593548
• ISBN-10: 0813593549
• Artikelnr.: 52529616

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