Media And Food Industries: The New Politics Of Food
by Michelle Phillipov /
2017 / English / PDF
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This volume is the first to combine textual analysis of food
media texts with interviews with media production staff, reality
TV contestants, celebrity chefs, and food producers and retailers
across the artisan-conventional spectrum. Intensified media
interest in food has seen food politics become a dominant feature
of popular media―from television and social media to cookbooks
and advertising. This is often thought to be driven by consumers
and by new ethics of consumption, but Media and Food Industries
reveals how contemporary food politics is also being shaped by
political and economic imperatives within the media and food
industries. It explores the behind-the-scenes production
dynamics of contemporary food media to assess the roles of―and
relationships between―media and food industries in shaping new
concerns and meanings with respect to food.
This volume is the first to combine textual analysis of food
media texts with interviews with media production staff, reality
TV contestants, celebrity chefs, and food producers and retailers
across the artisan-conventional spectrum. Intensified media
interest in food has seen food politics become a dominant feature
of popular media―from television and social media to cookbooks
and advertising. This is often thought to be driven by consumers
and by new ethics of consumption, but Media and Food Industries
reveals how contemporary food politics is also being shaped by
political and economic imperatives within the media and food
industries. It explores the behind-the-scenes production
dynamics of contemporary food media to assess the roles of―and
relationships between―media and food industries in shaping new
concerns and meanings with respect to food.