Bite Me: Food in Popular Culture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781845207618)

Food is not only something we eat, it is something we use to define ourselves. Ingestion and incorporation are central to our connection with the world outside our bodies. Food's powerful social, economic, political and symbolic roles cannot be ignored - what we eat is a marker of power, cultural capital, class, ethnic and racial identity.

Bite Me considers the ways in which popular culture reveals our relationship with food and our own bodies and how these have become an arena for political and ideological battles. Drawing on an extraordinary range of material - films, books, comics, songs, music videos, websites, slang, performances, advertising and mass-produced objects - Bite Me invites the reader to take a fresh look at today's products and practices to see how much food shapes our lives, perceptions and identities.

Author: Fabio Parasecoli
ISBN-10: 1845207610
ISBN-13: 9781845207618
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2008
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2009