Drawing on an extraordinary range of material - films, books, comics, songs, music videos, websites, slang. 'Bite Me considers the ways in which popular culture reveals our relationship with food and our own bodies and how these have become an arena for political and ideological battles.

'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. Bite me : food in popular culture by Fabio Parasecoli. There is little doubt that Parasecoli will be at the forefront with all the lines of communication and media open and at the ready. Among his publications are Food Culture in Italy and Bite Me: Food and Popular Culture (2008). Bite Me is an important book that will gain relevance as we advance into the frenetic zone of our century's second decade. Fabio Parasecoli is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Food Studies at the New School in New York City. His writing is genuinely brilliant and genuinely genuine his approach is refreshing, with lively and original material. Audant, CHOICE Magazine Parasecoli is a scholar with a heart.

Marion Nestle, New York University Parasecoli's analysis takes on vampires, aliens, body builders and booty, rap lyrics, and culinary tourism in a whirlwind ride that is deeply engaging, genuinely impassioned, and refreshingly saucy. Parasecoli takes a fresh and wonderfully analytical look at the deeper societal meanings of such matters as vampires, South Park, and the Atkins diet - subjects not often perceived as grist for scholarly mills. In Bite Me, Fabio Parasecoli gives us a riveting tour of the role of food in popular culture.

Bite Me by Fabio Parasecoli