Fat on film : gender, race and body size in contemporary Hollywood cinema / Barbara Plotz.

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020.

xiii, 282 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A critical theorization of fatness -- The de-masculinized fat male -- Female fatness as non-normative femininity -- The funny fat body: Slapstick and gross-out -- The fat eater: Food and eating -- The fat outsider.