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PublisherBloomsbury Publishing

ISBN-101845207610

ISBN-139781845207618

eBay Product ID (ePID)64464268

Product Key Features

Book TitleBite Me : Food in Popular Culture

Number of Pages176 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2008

TopicGeneral, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy)

GenreCooking, Social Science

AuthorFabio Parasecoli

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight9.1 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2008-024329

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsIn Bite Me, Fabio Parasecoli gives us a riveting tour of the role of food in popular culture. Parasecoli takes a fresh and wonderfully analytical look at the deeper societal meanings of such matters as vampires, South Park, and the Atkins diet - subjects not often perceived as grist for scholarly mills. Never has semiotics been so much fun. Marion Nestle, New York University, "In Bite Me, Fabio Parasecoli gives us a riveting tour of the role of food in popular culture. Parasecoli takes a fresh and wonderfully analytical look at the deeper societal meanings of such matters as vampires, South Park, and the Atkins diet - subjects not often perceived as grist for scholarly mills. Never has semiotics been so much fun." -- Marion Nestle, New York University "Parasecoli's analysis takes on vampires, aliens, body builders and booty, rap lyrics, and culinary tourism in a whirlwind ride that is deeply engaging, genuinely impassioned, and refreshingly saucy." -- A. B. Audant, CHOICE Magazine "Parasecoli is a scholar with a heart. His writing is genuinely brilliant and genuinely genuine; his approach is refreshing, with lively and original material. Bite Me is an important book that will gain relevance as we advance into the frenetic zone of our century's second decade. There is little doubt that Parasecoli will be at the forefront with all the lines of communication and media open and at the ready." -- Gastronomica

Dewey Decimal394.1/2

Table Of ContentChapter 1: Introduction: Pop Culture Drama: Food and Body Politics Chapter 2: Hungry Memories: Food, the Brain and the Consuming Self Chapter 3: Of Breasts and Beasts: Vampires and other Voracious Monsters Chapter 4: Tasty Utopia: Food and Politics in Science Fiction Chapter 5: Quilting the Empty Body: Food and Dieting Chapter 6: Jam, Juice, and Strange Fruit: Edible Black Bodies Chapter 7: Tourism and Taste: Exploring Identities Afterword: A Plea for Pleasure

SynopsisFood is not only something we eat, it is something we use to define ourselves. Ingestion and incorporation are central to our connection with the world outside our bodies. Food's powerful social, economic, political and symbolic roles cannot be ignored - what we eat is a marker of power, cultural capital, class, ethnic and racial identity. Bite Me considers the ways in which popular culture reveals our relationship with food and our own bodies and how these have become an arena for political and ideological battles. Drawing on an extraordinary range of material - films, books, comics, songs, music videos, websites, slang, performances, advertising and mass-produced objects - Bite Me invites the reader to take a fresh look at today's products and practices to see how much food shapes our lives, perceptions and identities., Food is not only something we eat, it is something we use to define ourselves. Ingestion and incorporation are central to our connection with the world outside our bodies. Food's powerful social, economic, political and symbolic roles cannot be ignored - what we eat is a marker of power, cultural capital, class, ethnic and racial identity.Bite Me considers the ways in which popular culture reveals our relationship with food and our own bodies and how these have become an arena for political and ideological battles. Drawing on an extraordinary range of material - films, books, comics, songs, music videos, websites, slang, performances, advertising and mass-produced objects - Bite Me invites the reader to take a fresh look at today's products and practices to see how much food shapes our lives, perceptions and identities.

LC Classification NumberGT2850