La dieta estrema. Autobiografia e (fast) food

Résumé

In February 2003, Morgan Spurlock, a young and still unknown filmmaker at the time, decided to make a crucial experiment whereby he would eat only McDonald’s food for thirty consecutive days, documenting the symptoms and effects of this extreme diet in film. The result is Supersize Me, an award-winning documentary about the junk-food industry, which was made famous by the paradoxically biographical as well as bioethical personal involvement of the director. Although this work does not belong to the autobiographical genre, it creates a peculiar form of self-narration set between family memories and confessions about food, which allows for an autobiographical reading of the text. The aim of this contribution is to highlight the autobiographical aspects of Spurlock’s extreme diet, which takes the interweaving of self-narration and nutrition as its starting point.