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Fat on film : gender, race and body size in contemporary Hollywood cinema / Barbara Plotz.
Author
Plotz, Barbara
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Description
1 online resource : illustrations
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Human body in motion pictures
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Body image in motion pictures
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Gender identity in motion pictures
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Race in motion pictures
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Motion pictures
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California
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Los Angeles
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Series
Library of gender and popular culture
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Summary note
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". This book provides a critical analysis of the cinematic representation of fatness during this timeframe, specifically in contemporary Hollywood cinema, with 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, Precious, Kung Fu Panda, Paul Blart and Pitch Perfect. Barbara Plotz provides a mapping of 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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
Source of description
Online resource; description from resource and publisher's metadata (viewed on 2 April 2021).
ISBN
9781350119390
OCLC
1130014188
Doi
10.5040/9781350119390
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