Food - Media - Senses - Interdisciplinary Approaches

Food is more than just nutrition. Its preparation, presentation and consumption is a multifold communicative practice which includes the meal's design and its whole field of experience. How is food represented in cookbooks, product packaging or in paintings? How is dining semantically charged? How is the sensuality of eating treated in different cultural contexts? In order to acknowledge the material and media-related aspects of eating as a cultural praxis, experts from media studies, art history, literary studies, philosophy, experimental psychology, anthropology, food studies, cultural studies and design studies share their specific approaches.

About the author

Christina Bartz ist Professorin für Fernsehen und digitale Medien am Institut für Medienwissenschaft der Universität Paderborn und Co-Leiterin im DFG-Projekt »Einrichtungen des Computers. Zum Zusammenhang von Computer und Wohnen«. Sie arbeitet zur Geschichte der Computerisierung des Hauses und der Verflechtung von Medien und häuslichem Alltag. Weitere Schwerpunkte ihrer Forschung sind die Themen Partizipation und Fernsehen.Jens Ruchatz (Prof. Dr. phil.), geb. 1969, ist Professor für Medienwissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt audiovisuelle Transferprozesse an der Philipps-Universität Marburg.

Summary

Food is more than just nutrition. Its preparation, presentation and consumption is a multifold communicative practice which includes the meal's design and its whole field of experience. How is food represented in cookbooks, product packaging or in paintings? How is dining semantically charged? How is the sensuality of eating treated in different cultural contexts? In order to acknowledge the material and media-related aspects of eating as a cultural praxis, experts from media studies, art history, literary studies, philosophy, experimental psychology, anthropology, food studies, cultural studies and design studies share their specific approaches.

Report

»[The book] affords a wide-ranging exploration of the many relationships and possible theorizations between food, media, and the senses.«

Emily Contois, https://foodanthro.com, 18.03.2024 20240318

Product details

• Assisted by: Christina Bartz (Editor), Jens Ruchatz (Editor), Eva Wattolik (Editor)
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2024
• EAN: 9783837664799
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-6479-9
• No. of pages: 330
• Dimensions: 199 mm x 23 mm x 234 mm
• Weight: 513 g
• Illustrations: 5 SW-Abb., 60 Farbabb.
• Series: Edition Medienwissenschaft
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Hauswirtschaft, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, food, Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Cultural History, Media, Media Studies, Culture, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Media Aesthetics, Theory of art, Experience, The arts: general issues, Social interaction, Philosophy, Kulturwissenschaften: Gesellschaft und Kulinarisches, Psychology, Decorative arts, History of art / art & design styles, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, The arts, Food Studies, Jewish Studies, Judaism, Sensuality, Industrial / commercial art & design, Design, industrielle und kommerzielle Kunst, Illustration, Consumerism, Sociology and anthropology, Philosophy and psychology, Culture and institutions, Social processes, Groups of people, History, geographic treatment, biography, Photography, computer art, cinematography, videography, General customs, Customs, etiquette, folklore