1 online resource (vii, 187 pages) : color illustrations
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
Summary
Watching Our Weights 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. Melissa Zimdars establishes how television shapes our knowledge of fatness and how fatness helps us better understand contemporary television
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-180) and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 21, 2019)
