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dc.contributor.advisorThomas, Ryan J., 1983-eng
dc.contributor.authorKoch, Andrew (Andrew James)eng
dc.date.issued2017eng
dc.date.submitted2017 Springeng
dc.description.abstractThere are copious types of visual media that viewers presently consume as entertainment. These various mediums showcase depictions that influence people's perceptions of both individuals and entire careers. In journalism studies, scholars look at these visual depictions in film, television, graphic novels, and others to categorize how journalism works and how journalists interact with the world. Depictions too often focus on hard news and mainline journalism at the expense of subfields such as food criticism. This study responds to a call to action to look into media beyond film, while carving out its own path and establishing that food critics are understudied. From non-journalistic beginnings, food criticism entered the fold of lifestyle journalism. In popular fictional visual media across time, close textual analysis of the depiction of food critics shows unique and shared themes, tropes, and story arcs specific to food critics, including: violence and anonymity. Depictions of food critics were homogenous regardless of the medium and were shown primarily as older white men with similar dress, attitude, and ethics. These depictions were overwhelmingly negative with few showing food critics doing their job well in a positive light. This thesis combats the neglect of depictions of food critics in journalistic study, as well as showcases the characterizations of food critics that separates them from other journalists and critics.eng
dc.description.bibrefIncludes bibliographical references (pages 99-103).eng
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityDr. Ryan J. Thomas, Thesis Supervisor.eng
dc.format.extent1 online resource (vi, 105 pages)eng
dc.identifier.merlinb121825838eng
dc.identifier.oclc1027706801eng
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10355/62055
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.32469/10355/62055eng
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.publisherUniversity of Missouri--Columbiaeng
dc.rightsOpenAccess.eng
dc.rights.licenseThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.eng
dc.sourceSubmited to University of Missouri--Columbia Graduate School.eng
dc.subject.FASTFood writerseng
dc.subject.FASTCriticism and interpretationeng
dc.subject.FASTReader-response criticismeng
dc.subject.FASTJournalism -- Social aspectseng
dc.titleVoracious villains or hungry heroes? : depictions of food critics in popular mediaeng
dc.typeThesiseng
thesis.degree.disciplineJournalism (MU)eng
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Missouri--Columbiaeng
thesis.degree.levelMasterseng
thesis.degree.nameM.A.eng


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