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Fattitude The Movie: Theory and Praxis of Creating a Documentary that Examines Fat Representation and Fat Social Justice

by Lindsey Averill

This dissertation explores the making of and research for the film, Fattitude, asocial justice based documentary that looks to awaken viewers to the reality of weightbias in media representation. This dissertation reviews the filmmaking process and thenengages with the nature of stereotypes about fat bodies. Deeply tied to feminist and fatstudies theory, the work here seeks to categorize and shape the understanding of weightbias in the media by linking fat tropes to clearly understood images of oppression, forexample the monstrous, the fool, they hypersexual and the asexual. The work also seeksto present theory on the nature of creating media representations of fatness that are notoppressive making note of current media created by grassroots movements for bodyacceptance and fat positivity. 2017 Degree granted: Dissertation (Ph.D.) FloridaAtlanticUniversity, 2017. Collection: FAUAdvisors/Committee Members: Caputi, Jane Dr. (Thesis advisor), Hagood, Taylor Dr. (Thesis advisor), Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters (Degree grantor).