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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Plotz, Barbara, author.
Imprint:	London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020
Description:	1 online resource ( xiii, 282 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Library of Gender and Popular Culture. Library of gender and popular culture.
Subject:	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.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12300967

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ISBN:	135011457X 9781350114579
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other form:	Print version: Plotz, Barbara Fat on Film : Gender, Race and Body Size in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,c2020 9781350114586

Table of 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.