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Author:
Zimdars, Melissa, 1985- author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2018014019
Title:
Watching our weights : the contradictions of televising fatness in the "obesity epidemic" / Melissa Zimdars.
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
vii, 187 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
Obesity on television.
Television--Social aspects--United States.
Obesity--Social aspects.
Obesity on television.
Obesity--Social aspects.
Television--Social aspects.
United States.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-180) 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 positivity -- Conclusion : the decline of The biggest loser.
ISBN:
0813593549
9780813593548
0813593557
9780813593555
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1032288090
LCCN:
2018004266
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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