{"product_id":"watching-our-weights-the-contradictions-of-televising-fatness-in-the-obesity-epidemic-paperback-softback-9780813593548","title":"Watching Our Weights; The Contradictions of Televising Fatness in the \"Obesity Epidemic\" (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813593548","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWatching Our Weights\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Contradictions of Televising Fatness in the \"Obesity Epidemic\"\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMelissa Zimdars (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813593548\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 7 February 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages, 15 b-w images\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.283 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Zimdars offers a gripping analysis of fat TV as a site for contesting meanings of health, fatness, and embodiment. Her examination of global trends in televising fatness is meticulously researched.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Kathleen A. LeBesco, author of Revolting Bodies?: The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Well-written and enjoyable to read, \u003ci\u003eWatching Our Weights\u003c\/i\u003e evaluates the various ways that fatness is portrayed on television. It will make an important contribution to popular culture studies in general and television studies specifically.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Esther Rothblum, coeditor of The Fat Studies Reader\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2020 Gourmand Awards, Food Writing Section, USA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eWatching Our Weights\u003c\/i\u003e explores the competing and contradictory fat representations on television that are related to weight-loss and health, medicalization and disease, and body positivity and fat acceptance. While television—especially reality television—is typically understood to promote individual self-discipline and expert interventions as necessary for transforming fat bodies into thin bodies, fat representations and narratives on television also create space for alternative as well as resistant discourses of the body. Melissa Zimdars thus examines the resistance inherent within TV representations and narratives of fatness as a global health issue, the inherent and overt resistance found across stories of medicalized fatness, and programs that actively avoid dieting narratives in favor of less oppressive ways of thinking about the fat body. \u003ci\u003eWatching Our Weights\u003c\/i\u003e weaves together analyses of media industry lore and decisions, communication and health policies, medical research, activist projects, popular culture, and media texts to establish both how television shapes our knowledge of fatness and how fatness helps us better understand contemporary television.  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e 1 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Televising Fatness\u003cbr\u003e 2 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Competing Understandings of Fatness\u003cbr\u003e 3 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Does TV Make You Fat?: Television as Causing and Solving the \"Obesity Epidemic\"  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Globesity Epidemic: Adapting Weight-Loss Television Around the World\u003cbr\u003e 5 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Exercising Control and the Illogics of Weight-Loss Television\u003cbr\u003e 6 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Spectacle, Sympathy, and the Medicalized Disease of \"Obesity\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Celebrating Large Bodies on the Small Screen: From Fat Visibility to Fat\u003cbr\u003e Acceptance\u003cbr\u003e 8  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Decline of \u003ci\u003eThe Biggest Loser\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Index \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563724468504,"sku":"9780813593548","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/watching-our-weights-the-contradictions-of-televising-fatness-in-the-obesity-epidemic-paperback-softback-9780813593548","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}