Fat on film : gender, race and body size in contemporary Hollywood cinema / Barbara Plotz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plotz, Barbara, author.

Series:

Library of gender and popular culture.

Library of Gender and Popular Culture.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body in motion pictures.

Body image in motion pictures.

Gender identity in motion pictures.

Race in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--California--Los Angeles--Plots, themes, etc.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 282 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Summary:

"Over the last two decades, fatness has become the focus of ubiquitous negative rhetoric, in the USA and beyond, presented under the cover of the medicalized ''war against the obesity epidemic''. In Fat on Film , Barbara Plotz provides a critical analysis of the cinematic representation of fatness during this timeframe, specifically in contemporary Hollywood cinema, with an emphasis on the intersection of gender, race and fatness. The analysis is based on around 50 films released since 2000 and includes examples such as Transformers (2007), Precious (2009), Kung Fu Panda (2008), Paul Blart (2009) and Pitch Perfect (2012).Plotz maps the common cinematic tropes of fatness and also shows how commonplace notions of fatness that are part of the current ''obesity epidemic'' discourse are reflected in these tropes. In this original study, Plotz brings critical attention to the politics of fat representation, a topic that has so far received little attention within film and cinema studies."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A critical theorization of fatness

The de-masculinized fat male

Female fatness as non-normative femininity

The funny fat body: Slapstick and gross-out

The fat eater: Food and eating

The fat outsider.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781350119390

1350119393

9781350114579

135011457X

OCLC:

1130014188