A critical analysis of the cinematic representation of fatness, specifically in contemporary Hollywood cinema, with an emphasis on the intersection of gender, race and fatness. Based on around 50 films released since 2000 and includes examples such as Transformers (2007), Precio…
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 represen…
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. "Over the last two decades, fatness has become the focus of ubi…
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 represen…
"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 represent…
"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 represe…