The Bloomsbury Handbook Of Food And Popular Culture

Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
About the Contributors......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Introduction Where Popular Culture Meets Food Studies......Page 16
What Is Popular Culture?......Page 17
The Book’s structure......Page 19
References......Page 24
Part One Vicarious Consumption: Media and Communication......Page 26
Chapter One Gender and Food Television: A Transnational Perspective on the Gendered Identities of Televised Celebrity Chefs......Page 28
The Birth and Rebirth of the Cooking Show......Page 29
The Cooking Housewife......Page 31
Male Professionalism and Connoisseurship......Page 32
Postfeminist Celebrity Chefs and New Culinary Masculinities......Page 34
Gender, Class, and Ethnicity
in Cooking Shows......Page 37
Conclusion......Page 38
References......Page 39
Chapter Two Food and Cinema:......Page 42
Banana Peels, Wheat, and Leather Shoes:
From Early Cinema to the Second World War......Page 43
From Social Criticism to Food Porn:
the Emergence of the Food Film Genre......Page 44
Documenting Food: Trends in Non-Fiction Food Films......Page 47
Scholarship on Food in Film......Page 48
Food Film as Genre......Page 49
Food, Film, and the Viewer’s Body......Page 51
Conclusion......Page 52
References......Page 53
Chapter Three Global Food, Global Media, Global Culture: Representations of the New Indian Cuisine in Indian Media......Page 55
Cosmopolitan Aspirations and Anxieties in
the Media Representation of Indian Food......Page 59
The Reimagining of Indian Identity in
the Media Representation of Food......Page 62
Conclusion: The Politics of Representing
Food in Media......Page 65
Notes......Page 66
References......Page 67
Chapter Four Tasting the Digital: New Food Media......Page 69
New Food Media: From #food
to @jamieoliver......Page 70
Understanding New Food Media:
Culinary Capital, Food Porn,
and Creative Production......Page 71
Examining New Food Media:
The Medium Shapes the Message......Page 74
References......Page 78
Chapter Five Cooking, Eating, Uploading: Digital Food Cultures......Page 81
Digital technologies, digital data,
and popular culture......Page 82
Digital food cultures:
from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0......Page 84
Food imagery and embodiment
in new digital media......Page 86
Big food data......Page 87
Conclusion......Page 91
References......Page 92
Part Two Visceral Practices:
Material Cultures of Eating......Page 96
Foundational Concepts of Food and Age......Page 98
Food in Infancy: Infant Formula and Baby Food......Page 100
School Lunch: Food in Childhood......Page 102
Diets and Dieting Products: Adulthood......Page 104
Food and Older Adults......Page 106
Future Research Directions......Page 107
References......Page 108
Chapter Seven Cooking at Home:The Cultural Construction of American “Home Cooking” in Popular Discourse......Page 111
References......Page 117
Background......Page 126
Challenges to the Supermarket Model......Page 128
Scholarly Perspectives......Page 129
Supermarket Futures......Page 134
References......Page 135
Chapter Nine Haute, Fast, and Historic: Restaurants and the Rise of Popular Culture......Page 139
From Fine Dining for the Elite to
Middle Class Consumers......Page 140
Race and Ethnicity: Purity and the Exotic......Page 142
Global Fast Food......Page 146
References......Page 149
Chapter Ten No Longer Tied to the Local: Street Food’s Technological Revolution......Page 153
What is Street Food? A History of Urbanization and Utility......Page 155
New Technology, Social Media, and Television: Street Food in the United States......Page 157
Street Food, Appropriation, and Cultural Imperialism......Page 161
Conclusion......Page 163
References......Page 164
Part Three Aesthetics of Food......Page 168
Chapter Eleven Food, Design, and Innovation: From Professional Specialization to Citizen Involvement......Page 170
Design and Food......Page 171
Diverging Definitions and Academic Perspectives......Page 172
Practice: Products, Innovation, and Technology......Page 175
Practice: Experience, Performance,
and Service......Page 178
Towards Processes and Systems......Page 180
References......Page 181
Chapter Twelve Food and Urban Design: Urban Agriculture as Second Nature?......Page 184
What is Urban Agriculture?......Page 185
Wicked Problems Require Wicked Solutions......Page 186
Second Nature and Urban Agriculture:
A Cultural Framework......Page 187
The Growing Practice of Urban
Agriculture......Page 189
Urban Agriculture and Urban Food Systems......Page 191
Designing for Urban Agriculture......Page 192
Conclusion: From the Present to the Future of Urban Agriculture......Page 194
References......Page 195
Chapter Thirteen Procrustean Boxes: Architecture and Slaughter......Page 199
Red Box......Page 200
Black Box......Page 203
Transparent Box......Page 207
References......Page 209
Chapter Fourteen Food and Art: Changing Perspectives on Food as a Creative Medium......Page 212
Studying the Ephemeral......Page 213
Food as Art Medium—Early Influences......Page 214
Chef as Artist......Page 216
Beyond Modernist Cuisine......Page 218
Growing to Composting—Exploring
the Food Cycle......Page 219
Kitchen Space as Art Space......Page 220
Conclusion......Page 222
Notes......Page 223
References......Page 224
Chapter FIfteen A Cultural History of Restaurants in Art Museums: Collaborative Creativities......Page 226
Food and Museums: Multiple Intersections......Page 228
Eating in Museums: Building up
the Restaurant......Page 229
A Brief History of Restaurants
in Art Museums......Page 231
Tasting the (Art) Museum:
The Restaurant as Cultural Space
and the Chef’s Creativity......Page 233
Conclusion: Artful Dining in Museum Restaurants......Page 236
References......Page 237
Chapter Sixteen Performing With(in) Food......Page 241
Lights Up......Page 242
Act I......Page 244
Act II......Page 246
Act III......Page 248
Denouement......Page 251
Notes......Page 252
References......Page 253
Part Four Sociopolitical Considerations: Contemporary Debates and Trends......Page 258
Chapter Seventeen From Food Advertising to Digital Engagements: Future Challenges for Public Health......Page 260
Review of the Literature......Page 262
Marketing to Children and Adolescents......Page 263
Corporate Capture of Popular Food Culture......Page 265
The Impact of New and Social Media......Page 266
Methodologies and Paradigms......Page 267
The Future......Page 268
References......Page 269
Chapter Eighteen Scourge or Savior? The Complex Relationship between Food and Science......Page 275
Little Shop of Horrors: Fears of Hybrids......Page 276
Day of the Triffids, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, and More: Frankensteinian Visions of Genetic Modification......Page 277
Silent Running, Silent Spring, and Producing Food with Neither Earth nor People......Page 279
Delight or Deception? Additives Gone Bad......Page 281
New Ways of Combining Science and Food......Page 283
Conclusions......Page 285
References......Page 286
Chapter Nineteen Nutrition, Health, and Food: “What should I eat?”......Page 289
The Rise of Nutrition in the United States......Page 290
Nutrition and/as Popular Culture......Page 292
Conclusion......Page 297
References......Page 298
Introduction......Page 301
Ethical-Eating Discourse: Themes and Debates......Page 302
Understanding The Kind Diet: Competing Perspectives on Ethical Eating......Page 305
Conclusion......Page 311
References......Page 312
Chapter Twenty-One Food and Cultural Heritage: Preserving, Reinventing, and Exposing Food Cultures......Page 316
Heritage, Tradition, and Typicality......Page 317
Intangible Cultural Heritage:
From UNESCO to Food Museums......Page 321
References......Page 326
Chapter Twenty-Two A Smiling Face is Half the Meal: Setting a Place for Culture in Food Advocacy (*Latvian proverb)......Page 329
The deculturing of agriculture......Page 330
Inserting culture into the four food discourses......Page 331
The human rights discourse......Page 332
The public health discourse......Page 333
The food security discourse......Page 334
The sustainability discourse......Page 336
Adding culture to the four discourses......Page 338
References......Page 339
Chapter Twenty-Three What is (not) Food? The Construction of Food Waste as a Social Problem......Page 344
What is food waste?......Page 346
Popular Culture and Cultural Production......Page 347
Popular Discourses about Food Waste
within the Foodscape......Page 348
Articulating Food Waste through Technologies, Bodies, and Capital......Page 351
Concluding with Small Steps: Eating
and Tasting (All of Our) Waste......Page 353
References......Page 355
Index......Page 358