Food, Media and Contemporary Culture is designed to interrogate the cultural fascination with food as the focus of a growing number of visual texts that reveal the deep, psychological relationship that each of us has with rituals of preparing, presenting and consuming food and images of food.Introduction; Peri Bradley PART I: FOOD, REPRESENTATION AND IDENTITY 1. More Cake Please We're British!: Locating British Identity In Contemporary TV Food Texts, The Great British Bake Off And Come Dine With Me; Peri Bradley 2. You Are What You Eat: Film Narratives And The Transformational Function Of Food; Craig Batty 3. Benidorm, Taste And The 'All You Can Eat' Buffet: Body, Class And Sexuality; Chris Pullen 4. Ruth Eats, Betty Vomits: Feminism, Bioculture, And Trouble With Food; Marsha Cassidy 5. A Woman's Place Is In The Kitchen?: Gender, Food And Television In The UK; Charley Packham PART II: FOOD, CONSUMPTION AND AUDIENCE 6. A Pinch Of Ethics And A Soup?on Of Home Cooking: Soft-Selling Supermarkets On Food Television; Tania Lewis And Michelle Phillipov 7. Meats Meat, And A Man's Gotta Eat. (Motel Hell 1980): Food And Eating Within Contemporary Horror Film And Horror Film Cultures; Shaun Kimber 8. Cooking On Reality TV: Chef-Participants And Culinary Television; Hugh Curnutt 9. Disorderly Eating And Eating Disorders: The Demonic Possession Film As Anorexia Allegory; Mark Bernard PART III: FOOD, SEX AND PLEASURE 10. Digesting Steven Spielberg; Murray Pomerance 11. Digesting The Image: Carnal Appetites In The Films Of Bigas Luna; Abigail Loxham 12. Dining As A 'Limit Experience': Jouissance And Gastronomic Pleasure As Cinematographic And Cultural Phenomena; Brendon Wocke 13. Food Porn: The Conspicuous Consumption Of Food In The Age Of Digital Reproduction; Erin Metz McdonnellCraig Batty, RMIT University, AustraliaMark Bernard, Unló€