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Bite Me: Food in Popular Culture

By Fabio Parasecoli

Book information

Publisher
Berg
Year
2008
ISBN
9781350044616, 9781845207625, 9781845207618
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1192087 bytes)
Pages
\170
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-07-01 00:35:03

Description

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.

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