Vassar College Digital Window @ Vassar Senior Capstone Projects 2015 Society of the Culinary Spectacle: An Analysis of the Mediated Relationship Between Female Celebrity Chefs And the Kitchen Olivia Harries Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalwindow.vassar.edu/senior_capstone Recommended Citation Harries, Olivia, "Society of the Culinary Spectacle: An Analysis of the Mediated Relationship Between Female Celebrity Chefs And the Kitchen" (2015). Senior Capstone Projects. 426. https://digitalwindow.vassar.edu/senior_capstone/426 This Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Window @ Vassar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Senior Capstone Projects by an authorized administrator of Digital Window @ Vassar. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. SOCIETY OF THE CULINARY SPECTACLE An Analysis of the Mediated Relationship Between Female Celebrity Chefs and the Kitchen Olivia Harries Submitted to the Department of Media Studies of Vassar College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts Advisors: Professor Heesok Chang and Professor M Mark April 2015 TaBle of Contents Introduction......................................................................................................................................... 1 Chapter One: Julia Child…………………………………………………………………………….…. 5 Section One: The Rise of the Foodie and Attendant Phenomenon of the Celebrity Chef…………………. 5 Section Two: Julia Child and the Context that Fostered the Modern Celebrity Chef……………………………………………. 10 Section Three: “The Potato Show”…………………………………………………….... 14 Section Four: The Celebritization of Julia Child…………………………………… 19 Chapter Two: The Modern Celebrity Chef on Television……………………………. 23 Section One: The Evolution of the Food Media Environment……………..… 24 Section Two: The Food Network Cook – Ree Drummond…………………….. 29 Section Three: The Food Network Chef – Anne Burrell………………………... 36 Section Four: The Gender Divide………………………………………………………..