Graduation Term
2018
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
School of Communication
Committee Chair
Joseph P. Zompetti
Abstract
CNN’s television series, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, merges food and travel genres to communicate representations of local, indigenous, and other formerly colonized cultures. This thesis will present the significance of Parts Unknown through a review of literature that concerns postcolonial theory and food discourse to which critical insights emerge and explain how indigenous cultures are represented within Western “foodie” television. These insights will then guide a postcolonial investigation of the food rhetoric used to represent/discuss colonized and local groups within three episodes of Parts Unknown. Additionally, potential applications for rhetorical criticism are discussed by using Parts Unknown as an example for scholars interested in conducting postcolonial media analyses.
Access Type
Thesis-Open Access
Recommended Citation
Combs, Mitch, "Food Discourse: the Communicative Gateway toward Understanding Formerly Colonized Representation in Parts Unknown" (2018). Theses and Dissertations. 850.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/etd/850
DOI
http://doi.org/10.30707/ETD2018.Combs.M