Prof. Dr. Evangelia Kindinger

Prof. Kindinger erforscht die kulturelle und gesellschaftliche Bedeutung von Körperlichkeit, insbesondere die Darstellung und Stigmatisierung von dicken Körpern in Medien, Populärkultur und öffentlichen Diskursen. Sie analysiert, wie Gewicht und Körperform in Machtverhältnisse, soziale Hierarchien und Geschlechterrepräsentationen verstrickt sind – etwa in Fernsehshows, politischen Debatten oder historischen Narrativen über amerikanische Regionen. Ihre Arbeiten verbinden Fat Studies mit Kulturwissenschaft und Medienanalyse und zeigen, wie Körpernormen gesellschaftliche Ungleichheiten widerspiegeln und verstärken. Für Medienunternehmen, Gesundheitskommunikation und Kulturinstitutionen bietet dieser Forschungsansatz Erkenntnisse darüber, wie Körperrepräsentationen Stereotype prägen und welche Alternativen zu stigmatisierender Berichterstattung möglich sind.

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• Liminal Whiteness: Southern Rednecks, Hillbillies, and Crackers in American Culture

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  Förderer: DFG Sachbeihilfe Zeitraum: 01/2020 - 01/2023 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Evangelia Kindinger

• “An obese turtle on his back” – fat-shaming Donald J. Trump and the spectacle of fat masculinity

  2022

  Fat Studies · DOI

  This article brings together fat studies and masculinity studies to critically read the various stagings of the fat body of former U.S. President Donald J. Trump in U.S. late-night talk shows such as Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel Live! During his presidency, these and other late-night hosts stressed that Trump was unfit for office, a sentiment often supported by fat-shaming discourses and imagery of the spectacular transgressions of Trump’s fat, male body that deemed his body as unfit for office as well. In these comedic segments, Trump’s fat, male body was utilized as a visualization of his incompetence, failures, and moral shortfalls. As I argue, these fat-shaming discourses are not merely aimed at making visible Trump’s lack of qualifications for the presidency, they result from deeply ingrained stigmatizations of fatness in popular culture. Specifically, I look at the unstable position of fat masculinity in U.S. public imagination, the dangers it supposedly poses to hegemonic masculinity, and the ways in which its intersection with whiteness (in this case Trump’s whiteness) informs this position. Satire, as a specific kind of communication, functions as a catalyst for anti-fat attitudes that are presented as political commentary.

• The ghost is just a metaphor: Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak, nineteenth-century female gothic, and the slasher

  2017

  DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · DOI

  This article proposes a feminist reading of Guillermo del Toro’s horror-ghost film CRIMSON PEAK (2015) that is based on the film’s allusions to nineteenth-century female gothic writing and the slasher’s final girl trope. Del Toro utilises the ghost as a metaphor that mirrors the precarious position of women in patriarchal societies (in general) and in horror narratives (in particular). The film simultaneously sketches the development of the genre as such, from literary fiction to film. CRIMSON PEAK is thus a highly self-referential film that borrows from its predecessors and sheds light on the ghostliness of horror as such.