You Are What You Eat. Television narratives between hedonism and self-control

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  • Luisa Stagi University of Genoa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13136/isr.v3i3.66

Keywords:

food porn, cooking show, eating disorder

Abstract

Television programming has experienced a recent influx of shows which focus on food and diet. The discursive forms employed by the media converge on an axis of hedonism/self-control: on the one hand, the increased construction of a culture of desire and fantasy relating to the consumption of food (Food Porn), on the other a neo-liberal discourse on the privatization of the individual’s responsibility towards their own body and health by virtue of media spectacularization of self-empowerment and self-governance.

Author Biography

Luisa Stagi, University of Genoa

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Published

04.12.2013

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Stagi, L. (2013). You Are What You Eat. Television narratives between hedonism and self-control. Italian Sociological Review, 3(3), 152. https://doi.org/10.13136/isr.v3i3.66

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Vol. 3 No. 3 (2013)

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