Signe Rousseau

Food Media (eBook, ePUB)

Celebrity Chefs and the Politics of Everyday Interference

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

There have been famous chefs for centuries. But it was not until the second half of the twentieth century that the modern celebrity chef business really began to flourish, thanks largely to advances in media such as television which allowed ever-greater numbers of people to tune in. Food Media charts the growth of this enormous entertainment industry, and also how, under the threat of the obesity "epidemic," some of its stars have taken on new authority as social activists, while others continue to provide delicious distractions from a world of potentially unsafe food. The narrative that joins these chapters moves from private to public consumption, and from celebrating food fantasies to fueling anxieties about food realities, with the questionable role of interference in people's everyday food choices gaining ground along the way. Covering celebrity chefs such as Jamie Oliver and Rachael Ray, and popular trends like foodies, food porn and fetishism, Food Media describes how the intersections between celebrity culture and food media have come to influence how many people think about feeding themselves and their families - and how often that task is complicated when it need not be.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857850836
• Artikelnr.: 38453074

Autorenporträt

Signe Rousseau teaches critical literacy at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is a contributing author to The Business of Food: Encyclopaedia of the Food and Drink Industry; Food Cultures of the World; Icons of American Cooking; The Oxford Companion to Food, and A Cultural History of Food, Volume 6: The Modern Age (2011)

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Do You Remember when Chefs just Cooked?
Part I: Food Media - A Fantasy Industry
1. The New Study of Food
Chef Mario Batali, on the Subject of Cooking
Enter the Foodie
Television: The Magic Screen
To Your Health
Let Me Entertain You
2. Foodie Books and Fantasies
Communication: 'The object thus made common'
A Life Less Ordinary (David, Fisher, Liebling)
Drooling Over History
A Life More Ordinary (Food Literature)
Ignorance as Commodity
Part II: The Rise and Rise of Food Television
3. The Celebrity (Professional) Chef: Jamie Oliver
The Naked Chef
@jamie_oliver
Jamie's Kitchen
The Jamie Effect, or The Practice of Everyday Interference
4. The Celebrity (Amateur) Chef: Rachael Ray
Multi-Millionaire Girl-Next-Door
The Yum-O® Revolution
Food Porn
Disordered Eating
5. Fetishism and the Imagination: Heston Blumenthal and Nigella Lawson
Everyday Mythology
In Search of Perfection
Fetishism: 'The definitive mistake of the pre-enlightened mind'
The Domestic Goddess
Part III: How Not to Think About What to Eat
6. Nutritionism, Bad Science and Spectacles of Disordered Eating
Morbid Fascinations
You Are What You Eat
Supersize vs. Superskinny
Super Skinny Me
7. Obesity: Whose Responsibility Is It Anyway?
Fat Stories
The Obesity Police
Fat Taxes
Evidence: What of?
Public Good
Bibliography
Index