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Fat on Film - Gender, Race and Body Size in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (Hardcover)
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Fat on Film - Gender, Race and Body Size in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (Hardcover)
Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture
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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.
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