Fat on Film

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Fat on Film is written by Barbara Plotz and published by Bloomsbury Academic. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1350114588 (ISBN 10) and 9781350114586 (ISBN 13).

Over the last two decades, fatness has become the focus of ubiquitous negative rhetoric, in the USA and beyond, presented under the cover of the medicalized ''war against the obesity epidemic''. This book provides a critical analysis of the cinematic representation of fatness during this timeframe, specifically in contemporary Hollywood cinema, with emphasis on the intersection of gender, race and fatness. The analysis is based on around 50 films released since 2000 and includes examples such as Transformers, Precious, Kung Fu Panda, Paul Blart and Pitch Perfect. Barbara Plotz provides a mapping of the common cinematic tropes of fatness and also shows how commonplace notions of fatness that are part of the current ''obesity epidemic'' discourse are reflected in these tropes. In this original study Plotz brings critical attention to the politics of fat representation, a topic that has so far received little attention within film and cinema studies.