Fat on film : gender, race and body size in contemporary Hollywood cinema / Barbara Plotz.

  • Plotz, Barbara
Date:
2020
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020.

Physical description

xiii, 282 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

A critical theorization of fatness -- The de-masculinized fat male -- Female fatness as non-normative femininity -- The funny fat body: Slapstick and gross-out -- The fat eater: Food and eating -- The fat outsider.

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    History of Medicine
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ISBN

  • 1350114588
  • 9781350114586