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Watching our weights : the contradictions of televising fatness in the "obesity epidemic"
Title
Watching our weights : the contradictions of televising fatness in the "obesity epidemic" / Melissa Zimdars.
ISBN
9780813593555
0813593557
9780813593548
0813593549
Publication
New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2019
Physical Description
vii, 187 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 14, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Televising fatness
Competing understandings of fatness
Does TV make you fat?: television as causing and solving the "obesity epidemic"
The globesity epidemic: adapting weight-loss television around the world
Exercising control and the illogics of weight-loss television
Spectacle, sympathy, and the medicalized disease of "obesity"
Celebrating large bodies on the small screen: from fat visibility to fat acceptance
The decline of The biggest loser.
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