Playing with Food by Delia Chiaro, Debra Aarons - 9780367708498

Playing with FoodLanguage, Humor, and Disgust\nAuthor(s): Delia Chiaro, Debra Aarons\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367708498, 978-0367708498\nSynopsis\nPlaying with Food: Language, Humor, and Disgust is the first book to explore the interplay of food, humor, and disgust in multimodal media.\n\nChiaro and Aarons note that, whenever food and comedy intersect, disgust is rarely far behind. Grounded in the theoretical framework of Carnival, the authors analyze the affective, cognitive, and corporeal responses to food, highlighting the central role of humor both in the way we talk about food and in our perception of the body and disgust. Through a rich array of texts, from everyday language and literature to video, advertising, music, politics, and beyond, this book advances a comprehensive examination of the wider notion of taste.\n\nWith diverse, detailed case studies and an accessible, lively style, Playing with.