Watching our weights : the contradictions of televising fatness in the "obesity epidemic" /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Zimdars, Melissa, 1985- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Obesity on television. Obesity > Social aspects. Television > Social aspects > United States. Television > Social aspects. United States.

Table of 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.