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Title Food on film : bringing something new to the table / edited by Tom Hertweck
Published Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource : color illustrations
Series Film and history
Film and history (Lanham, Md.)
Contents pt. I FIRST COURSES: OPENING UP NEW DIRECTIONS IN FOOD AND FILM -- 1."The Average Piece of Junk Is Probably More Meaningful Than Our Criticism Designating It So": Reading (Rhetorically) the Restaurant Review in Disney/Pixar's Ratatouille / Elisabeth H. Buck -- 2. Table Talk: Queer Revelations through Meals in Filipino Gay-Male Films / Mark DeStephano -- 3."A Nice Cup of Tea": Tea Culture in 1930s and 1940s British Documentary Film / Lynn Hilditch -- pt. II FOOD AND AFRICAN AMERICAN FILM -- 4. Eat the Right Thing: The Urban Food Desert of Spike Lee's Bed-Stuy / Deborah Adelman -- 5."So Good Make You Wanna Slap Yo' Mama": Race, Gender, and Eating in the Comedy Film 'Hood / Joshua Culpepper -- 6. From Disgust to Gustatory Pleasure: The Evolution of Alimentary and Moral Repulsion in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple / Lynn R. Johnson -- pt. III FEEDING THE FAMILY: NEW DIRECTIONS IN FOOD AND NON-AMERICAN FILM
7. Taste, Honor, and Tradition in Il Mafioso / Memory Holloway -- 8. Food, Family, and History in Japanese Postwar Film: Four Cases and a Few Comparisons / Charles W. Hayford -- 9. Appetite and Aroma: Visual Imagery and the Perception of Taste and Smell in Contemporary Korean Film / Dotty Hamilton -- pt. IV SMALL SCREENS, BIG APPETITES: FOOD AND TELEVISION -- 10. Dale Cooper and the Mouth-Feel of Twin Peaks / Andrew Hageman -- 11. Food and Conversation in Sex and the City: Fashion Consumed, Sex Digested / Glenda Sacks -- pt. V EATING HUMANS: NEW IDEAS ON THE OLDEST TABOO -- 12."Little Shakin', Little Tenderizin', and Down You Go": Jaws and Humanity's Fear of Finding Itself on the Menu / Mark R. Bousquet -- 13. Sacrament to Sacrilege: Human Flesh as Sustenance in Alive and The Road / Jennifer Dawes Adkison -- 14. New Zealand Lamb Is People: Bad Taste, Black Sheep, and Farming / Christian B. Long
Summary 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.--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Food in motion pictures.
Film criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Film criticism
Food in motion pictures
Form Electronic book
Author Hertweck, Tom, editor.
ISBN 9781442243613
1442243619