5. Exercising Control and the Illogics of Weight-Loss Television

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. 1. Televising Fatness 1
4. 2. Competing Understandings of Fatness 19
5. 3. Does TV Make You Fat?: Television as Causing and Solving the “Obesity Epidemic” 37
6. 4. The Globesity Epidemic: Adapting Weight-Loss Television around the World 60
7. 5. Exercising Control and the Illogics of Weight-Loss Television 80
8. 6. Spectacle, Sympathy, and the Medicalized Disease of “Obesity” 103
9. 7. Celebrating Large Bodies on the Small Screen: From Fat Visibility to Fat Positivity 123
10. Conclusion: The Decline of The Biggest Loser 143
11. Acknowledgments 151
12. Notes 153
13. Index 181
14. About the Author 189