Food, Media and Contemporary Culture is designed to interrogate the cultural fascination with food as the focus of a growing number of visual texts that reveal the deep, psychological relationship that each of us has with rituals of preparing, presenting and consuming food and images of food.

Autorentext
Craig Batty, RMIT University, Australia Mark Bernard, University of North Carolina, USA Marsha Cassidy, University of Illinois, USA Hugh Curnutt, Montclair State University, USA Shaun Kimber, Bournemouth University, UK Tania Lewis, RMIT University, Australia Abigail Loxham, University of Queensland, Australia Erin Metz McDonnell, University of Notre Dame, USA Charley Packham, Bournemouth University, UK Michelle Phillipov, University of Tasmania, Australia Murray Pomerance, Ryerson University, Canada Christopher Pullen, Bournemouth University, UK Brendon Wocke, University of Bergamo, Italy

Inhalt
Introduction; Peri Bradley
PART I: FOOD, REPRESENTATION AND IDENTITY

1. More Cake Please We're British!: Locating British Identity In Contemporary TV Food Texts, The Great British Bake Off And Come Dine With Me; Peri Bradley
2. You Are What You Eat: Film Narratives And The Transformational Function Of Food; Craig Batty
3. Benidorm, Taste And The 'All You Can Eat' Buffet: Body, Class And Sexuality; Chris Pullen
4. Ruth Eats, Betty Vomits: Feminism, Bioculture, And Trouble With Food; Marsha Cassidy
5. A Woman's Place Is In The Kitchen?: Gender, Food And Television In The UK; Charley Packham
   PART II: FOOD, CONSUMPTION AND AUDIENCE
6. A Pinch Of Ethics And A Soupçon Of Home Cooking: Soft-Selling Supermarkets On Food Television; Tania Lewis And Michelle Phillipov
7. "Meats Meat, And A Man's Gotta Eat." (Motel Hell 1980): Food And Eating Within Contemporary Horror Film And Horror Film Cultures; Shaun Kimber
8. Cooking On Reality TV: Chef-Participants And Culinary Television; Hugh Curnutt
9. Disorderly Eating And Eating Disorders: The Demonic Possession Film As Anorexia Allegory; Mark Bernard
   PART III: FOOD, SEX AND PLEASURE
10. Digesting Steven Spielberg; Murray Pomerance
11. Digesting The Image: Carnal Appetites In The Films Of Bigas Luna; Abigail Loxham
12. Dining As A 'Limit Experience': Jouissance And Gastronomic Pleasure As Cinematographic And Cultural Phenomena; Brendon Wocke
13. Food Porn: The Conspicuous Consumption Of Food In The Age Of Digital Reproduction; Erin Metz Mcdonnell