Dining with Madmen: Fat, Food, and the Environment in 1980s Horror

by Thomas Fahy

Book Overview

In Dining with Madmen: Fat, Food, and the Environment in 1980s Horror, author Thomas Fahy explores America's preoccupation with body weight, processed foods, and pollution through the lens of horror. Conspicuous consumption may have communicated success in the eighties, but only if it did not become visible on the body. American society had come to view fatness as a horrifying transformation--it exposed the potential harm of junk food, gave...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149682153X
• ISBN13: 9781496821539
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"