Overview

Food is everywhere in contemporary mediascapes, as witnessed by the increase in cookbooks, food magazines, television cookery shows, online blogs, recipes, news items and social media posts about food. This mediatization of food means that the media often interplays between food consumption and everyday practices, between private and political matters and between individuals, groups, and societies. This volume argues that contemporary food studies needs to pay more attention to the significance of media in relation to how we `do' food. Understanding food media is particularly central to the diverse contemporary social and cultural practices of food where media use plays an increasingly important but also differentiated and differentiating role in both large-scale decisions and most people's everyday practices. The contributions in this book offer critical studies of food media discourses and of media users' interpretations, negotiations and uses that construct places and spaces as well as possible identities and everyday practices of sameness or otherness that might form new - or renew old - food politics.

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Author:   Dr Jonatan Leer ,  Dr Karen Klitgaard Povlsen ,  Professor Michael K Goodman
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Ashgate Publishing Limited
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9781472439697

ISBN 10:   1472439694
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   28 June 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction, Jonatan Leer and Karen Klitgaard Povlsen. Part One Food Practices in the Media: Good fare and welfare: perceptions of American and French food in postwar cookbooks, Caroline Nyvang; Transcultural food and recipes for immigration, Susanna Moodie and Cathrine Parr Traill (Vera Alexander); Just a happy housewife? Michelle Obama, food activism and (African-)American womanhood, Katrine Meldgaard Kjaer; `The worst mum in Britain': class, gender and caring in the campaigning culinary documentary, Joanne Hollows; Manning the table: masculinity and weight loss in U.S. commercials, Fabio Parasecoli; Homosocial heterotopias and masculine escapism in TV-cooking shows, Jonathan Leer. Part Two Practices of Food and Media: `I (never) just Google': media and food practices, Karen Klitgaard Povlsen; Everyday mothering and the media food `soup': comparing contested food and mothering across genres in two different social contexts, Bente Halkier; Food across media: popular food contents among children in Germany, Susanne Eichner; Children cooking media food: exploring media (food) literacy through experimental methods, Stinne Gunder Strom Krogager; Epilogue: politics and the future of food and media, Kathleen LeBesco and Peter Naccarato. Index.

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Jonatan Leer is a Postdoc in the Department of Education, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Karen Klitgaard Povlsen is Associate Professor in the Department of Aesthetics and Communication - Media Studies, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

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