Eatertainment and the (Re)classification of Children's Foods

Charlene D Elliott

11 citations0/0 files storedFood Culture & Society

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Consumer Packaging Perceptions and Trends Food, Nutrition, and Cultural Practices Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling

Abstract

Ideas of fun and play have emerged as dominant characteristics in children's packaged food marketing. This article examines both the expression and implications of “eatertainment” in children's packaged food products, contrasting it with the theme of engagement that typifies the marketing of many adult foodstuffs. I detail how child-oriented packaged food both embodies and communicates (historical, culturally specific) ideas about childhood, and explore how the reclassification of children's food into “fun food” brings with it a series of unintended consequences, which include commodification, the reinforcement of webs of consumption, and the encouragement of overeating.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 11 citations exist upstream.

References

2018The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work 1983The Disappearance of Childhood 1960Centuries of Childhood 1999Experiential marketing : how to get customers to sense, feel, think, act, and relate to your company and brands 1996Childhood 1964The Raw and the Cooked 2020Children and Childhood in Western Society Since 1500 1997When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.