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From "supersizing it" to hoarding, we are living in an age of
excess. Whether it is cars or housing, American culture is being
driven by the old adage that "bigger is better". Yet, although we
often overlook it, nowhere is this rhetoric of excess more on
display than within our food discourses. While many would argue
that the gourmand vanished from society at the end of the 19th
century, this book contends that both the gourmand and its
counterpart, the glutton, have moved beyond their historic roots to
become cultural personae found throughout contemporary media and
popular culture. Utilizing texts ranging from the Slow Food
Movement to "food porn" as a cornucopia of visual fantasies, this
book maintains that today the gourmand and the glutton have come to
epitomize a rhetoric of excess far beyond the realm of food.
Foodscapes explores the nexus of food, drink, space, and place,
both locally and globally. Multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary
in scope, scholars consider the manifold experiences that we have
when engaging with food, drink, space, and place. They offer a wide
array of theories, methods, and perspectives, which can be used as
lenses for analyzing these interconnections, throughout each
chapter. Scholars interrogate our practices and behaviors with food
within spaces and places, analyze the meanings that we create about
these entities, and demonstrate their wider cultural, political,
social, economic, and material implications.
Foodscapes explores the nexus of food, drink, space, and place,
both locally and globally. Multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary
in scope, scholars consider the manifold experiences that we have
when engaging with food, drink, space, and place. They offer a wide
array of theories, methods, and perspectives, which can be used as
lenses for analyzing these interconnections, throughout each
chapter. Scholars interrogate our practices and behaviors with food
within spaces and places, analyze the meanings that we create about
these entities, and demonstrate their wider cultural, political,
social, economic, and material implications.
From high-tech kitchen gadgets and magazines to the Food Network,
the last few decades have seen a huge rise in food-focused
consumption, media, and culture. The discourses surrounding food
range from media coverage of school lunchrooms and hunger issues,
to news stories about urban gardening or buying organic products at
the local farmers market. Food is no longer viewed merely as a
means of survival. International and comprehensive in approach,
this volume is the first book-length study of food from a
communication perspective. Scholars examine and explore this
emerging field to provide definitive and foundational examples of
how food operates as a system of communication, and how
communication theory and practices can be understood by considering
food in this way. In doing so, the book serves to inspire future
dialogues on the subject due to its vast array of ideas about food
and its relationship to our communication practices.
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