Food, Media and Contemporary Culture The Edible Image
Food, Media and Contemporary Culture is designed to interrogate the cultural fascination with food as the focus of a growing number of visual texts that reveal the deep, psychological relationship that each of us has with rituals of preparing, presenting
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Food, Media and Contemporary Culture The Edible Image Edited by
Peri Bradley Bournemouth University, UK
Selection, introduction and editorial matter © Peri Bradley 2016 Individual chapters © Respective authors 2016
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2016 978-1-137-46322-7 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2016 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.
ISBN 978-1-349-56102-5 ISBN 978-1-137-46323-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-46323-4 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Food, media and contemporary culture : the edible image / Peri Bradley, Bournemouth University, UK [editor]. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Television cooking shows—Great Britain—History and criticism. 2. Food on television. 3. Food in motion pictures. 4. Food—Social aspects—Great Britain. I. Bradley, Peri, 1960– editor. PN1992.8.C68F77 2015 2015023254 791.43 6564—dc23
Contents
List of Figures
vii
Notes on Contributors
viii
Introduction Peri Bradley
1
Part I Food, Representation and Identity 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
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2 You Are What You Eat: Film Narratives and the Transformational Function of Food Craig Batty
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3 Benidorm and the ‘All You Can Eat’ Buffet: Food, Bodily Functions and the Carnivalesque Christopher Pullen
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4 Ruth Eats, Betty Vomits: Feminism, Bioculture and Trouble with Fo
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