Frontmatter
Contents
1. Televising Fatness
2. Competing Understandings of Fatness
3. Does TV Make You Fat?: Television as Causing and Solving the "Obesity Epidemic"
4. The Globesity Epidemic: Adapting Weight-Loss Television around the World
5. Exercising Control and the Illogics of Weight-Loss Television
6. Spectacle, Sympathy, and the Medicalized Disease of "Obesity"
7. Celebrating Large Bodies on the Small Screen: From Fat Visibility to Fat Positivity
Conclusion: The Decline of The Biggest Loser
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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