Watching Our Weights : : The Contradictions of Televising Fatness in the “Obesity Epidemic” / / Melissa Zimdars.
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. While television—especially reality television—is typically understood to promote individual...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (206 p.) :; 15 b-w images |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1. Televising Fatness
- 2. Competing Understandings of Fatness
- 3. Does TV Make You Fat?: Television as Causing and Solving the “Obesity Epidemic”
- 4. The Globesity Epidemic: Adapting Weight-Loss Television around the World
- 5. Exercising Control and the Illogics of Weight-Loss Television
- 6. Spectacle, Sympathy, and the Medicalized Disease of “Obesity”
- 7. Celebrating Large Bodies on the Small Screen: From Fat Visibility to Fat Positivity
- Conclusion: The Decline of The Biggest Loser
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author