Volume 44, May–June 2014, Pages 236–246
Gluttonous crimes: Chew, comic books, and the ingestion of masculinity
Synopsis
Food-related
embodied experiences are entangled in all aspects of subject positions,
from ethnicity to class, from age to gender. When it comes to
masculinity, food plays a very important role as an arena where various
models of masculinity are negotiated. Representations of men around food
in a specific medium – comic books and detective stories – can
establish, question, reinforce, reproduce or destroy cultural
assumptions about masculinity and gender relations. The comic book Chew
employs irony and tropes from horror, detective, and action genres to
blur gender and ethnic stereotypes about eating and ingestion that are
otherwise prevalent in many forms of popular culture, from movies to
cookbooks.
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