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Food, Film and Culture

2014-11-04 Social Science
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Release : 2014-11-04
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Book Synopsis Food, Film and Culture by : James R. Keller

Download or read book Food, Film and Culture written by James R. Keller. This book was released on 2014-11-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culinary imagery, much like sexual and violent imagery, is a key cinematic device used to elicit a sensory response from an audience. In many films, culinary imagery is central enough to constitute a new subgenre, defined by films in which food production, preparation, service, and consumption play a major part in the development of character, structure, or theme. This book defines the food film genre and analyzes the relationship between cinematic food imagery and various cultural constructs, including politics, family, identity, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, and religion. Chapters examine these themes in several well-known food films, such as The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Chocolat, Babette's Feast, and Eat Drink Man Woman, and lesser-known productions, including Felicia's Journey, Kitchen Stories, Magic Kitchen, and Chinese Feast. The work includes a filmography of movies within the food genre. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Feasting Our Eyes

2016-11-29 Performing Arts
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Release : 2016-11-29
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis Feasting Our Eyes by : Laura Lindenfeld

Download or read book Feasting Our Eyes written by Laura Lindenfeld. This book was released on 2016-11-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Night (1996), Ratatouille (2007), and Julie and Julia (2009) are more than films about food—they serve a political purpose. In the kitchen, around the table, and in the dining room, these films use cooking and eating to explore such themes as ideological pluralism, ethnic and racial acceptance, gender equality, and class flexibility—but not as progressively as you might think. Feasting Our Eyes takes a second look at these and other modern American food films to emphasize their conventional approaches to nation, gender, race, sexuality, and social status. Devoured visually and emotionally, these films are particularly effective defenders of the status quo. Feasting Our Eyes looks at Hollywood films and independent cinema, documentaries and docufictions, from the 1990s to today and frankly assesses their commitment to racial diversity, tolerance, and liberal political ideas. Laura Lindenfeld and Fabio Parasecoli find women and people of color continue to be treated as objects of consumption even in these modern works and, despite their progressive veneer, American food films often mask a conservative politics that makes commercial success more likely. A major force in mainstream entertainment, American food films shape our sense of who belongs, who has a voice, and who has opportunities in American society. They facilitate the virtual consumption of traditional notions of identity and citizenship, reworking and reinforcing ingrained ideas of power.

Food on Film

2014-10-30 Performing Arts
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Release : 2014-10-30
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis Food on Film by : Tom Hertweck

Download or read book Food on Film written by Tom Hertweck. This book was released on 2014-10-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From early cinematic depictions of food as a symbol of ethnic and cultural identity to more complex contemporary portrayals, movies have demonstrated how our ideas about food are always changing. On the big and small screens, representations of addiction, starvation, and even food as fetish reinforce how important food is in our lives and in our culture. In Food on Film: Bringing Something New to the Table, Tom Hertweck brings together innovative viewpoints about a popular, yet understudied, subject in cinema. This collection explores the pervasiveness of food in film, from movies in which meals play a starring role to those that feature food and eating in supporting or cameo appearances. The volume asks provocative questions about food and its relationship with work, urban life, sexual orientation, the family, race, morality, and a wide range of “appetites.” The fourteen essays by international, interdisciplinary scholars offer a wide range of perspectives on such films and television shows as The Color Purple, Do the Right Thing, Ratatouille, The Road, Sex and the City, Twin Peaks, and even Jaws. From first course to last, Food on Film will be of interest to scholars of film and television, sociology, anthropology, and cultural history.

Food in Film

2014-06-23 History
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Release : 2014-06-23
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Food in Film by : Jane Ferry

Download or read book Food in Film written by Jane Ferry. This book was released on 2014-06-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using an interdisciplinary approach combining film, semiotics, social-anthropology and history, this book examines food sciences in selected films to reveal food's power to direct and impose values and beliefs, to understand how dining venues may become sites of social contests and to reveal how food communicated values and beliefs to individuals, to micro communities and to American Society.

Food, Media and Contemporary Culture

2016-01-26 Social Science
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Release : 2016-01-26
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Book Synopsis Food, Media and Contemporary Culture by : Peri Bradley

Download or read book Food, Media and Contemporary Culture written by Peri Bradley. This book was released on 2016-01-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food, Media and Contemporary Culture is designed to interrogate the cultural fascination with food as the focus of a growing number of visual texts that reveal the deep, psychological relationship that each of us has with rituals of preparing, presenting and consuming food and images of food.

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