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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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bower, Anne (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; London : Routledge, 2004.
Temas:
Food in motion pictures.
Aliments au cinéma.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
Food in motion pictures
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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