Watching our weights : the contradictions of televising fatness in the "obesity epidemic" /

Watching Our Weights 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. Melissa Zimdars establishes how television shapes our knowledge of fatness and how fatness h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zimdars, Melissa, 1985- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Temas:
Obesity on television.
Television > Social aspects > United States.
Obesity > Social aspects.
Obésité à la télévision.
Télévision > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Obésité > Aspect social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Television > Social aspects.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Televising fatness
  • Competing understandings of fatness
  • Does TV make you fat? : television as causing and solving the "obesity epidemic"
  • The globesity epidemic : adapting weight-loss television around the world
  • Exercising control and the illogics of weight-loss television
  • Spectacle, sympathy, and the medicalized disease of "obesity"
  • Celebrating large bodies on the small screen : from fat visibility to fat positivity
  • Conclusion : the decline of The biggest loser.

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