現代ハリウッド映画が描く肥満とジェンダー・人種 Fat on Film : Gender, Race and Body Size in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (Library of Gender and Popular Culture)

Plotz, Barbara

Bloomsbury Academic（2021/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 296 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781350191662
• DDC分類 791.436561

Full Description

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.

Contents

List of Figures
Series Editors' Foreword
Introduction
1. A Critical Theorization of Fatness
2. The De-Masculinized Fat Male
3. Female Fatness as Non-Normative Femininity
4. The Funny Fat Body: Slapstick and Gross-Out
5. The Fat Eater: Food and Eating
6. The Fat Outsider
Conclusion
Bibliography
Filmography
Index