| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 353 pages) |
| Contents |
1. Watching food: the production of food, film, and values / Anne L. Bower -- Cooking up cultural values -- 2. Feel good reel food: a taste of the cultural kedgeree in Gurinder Chadha's What's Cooking? / Debnita Chakravarti -- 3. Food, play, business, and the image of Japan in Itami Juzo's Tampopo / Michael Ashkenazi -- 4. Il Timpano--"to eat good food is to be close to God": the Italian-American reconciliation of Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott's Big Night / Margaret Coyle -- 5. Cooking Mexicanness: shaping national identity in Alfonso Arau's Como agua para chocolate / Miriam López-Rodríguez -- 6. Chickens, cakes, and kitchens: food and modernity in Malay films of the 1950s and 1960s / Timothy P. Barnard -- 7. "I'll have whatever she's having": Jews, food, and film / Nathan Abrams -- 8. Food as representative of ethnicity and culture in George Tillman's Jr.'s Soul Food, María Ripoll's Tortilla soup, and Tim Reid's Once upon a time when we were colored / Robin Balthrope -- Focus on gender--the body, the spirit -- 9. Gendering the feast: women, spirituality, and grace in three food films / Margaret H. McFadden -- 10. Food, sex, and power at the dining room table in Zhang Yimou's Raise the red lantern / Ellen J. Fried -- 11. Anorexia envisioned: Mike Leigh's Life is sweet, Chul-Soo park's 301/302, and Todd Haynes's Superstar / Gretchen Papazian -- 12. Production, reproduction, food, and women in Herbert Biberman's Salt of the earth and Lourdes Portillo and Nina Serrano's After the earthquake / Carole M. Counihan -- 13. Images of consumption in Jutta Brückner's Years of hunger / Yogini Joglekar -- Making movies, making meals -- 14. Appetite for destruction: ganster food and genre convention to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp fiction / Rebecca L. Epstein -- 15. "Leave the gun; take the cannoli": food and family in the modern American mafia film / Marlisa Santos -- 16. All-consuming passions: Peter Greenaway's The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover / Raymond Armstrong -- 17. Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's Delicatessen: an ambiguous memory, an ambivalent meal / Kyri Watson Claflin -- 18. Futuristic foodways: the metaphotical meaning of food in science fiction film / Laurel Forster -- 19. Supper, slapstick, and social class: dinner as machine in the silent films of Buster Keaton / Eric L. Reinholtz -- 20. Banquet and the beast: the civilizing role of dood in 1930s horror films / Blair Davis -- 21. Engorged with desire: the films of Alfred Hitchcock and the gendered politics of eating / David Greven -- 22. What about the popcorn? food and the film-watching experience / James Lyons |
| Summary |
This is the first book devoted to food as a vibrant andevocative element of film. It reads various films through their uses ofFood - from major "food films" like Babette's Feast andBig Night - to less obvious choices including TheGodfather trilogy and The Matrix |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Food in motion pictures.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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Food in motion pictures
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bower, Anne, editor
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| ISBN |
9780203337233 |
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0203337239 |
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9781135875862 |
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1135875863 |
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9781135875855 |
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1135875855 |
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1280106840 |
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9781280106842 |
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1283546353 |
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9781283546355 |
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9786613858801 |
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6613858803 |
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