Representing Italy through food /

"Italy has long been romanticized as an idyllic place. Italian food and foodways play an important part in this romanticization - from bountiful bowls of fresh pasta to bottles of Tuscan wine. While such images oversimplify the complex reality of modern Italy, they are central to how Italy is i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Naccarato, Peter, 1970- (Editor ), Nowak, Zachary (Editor ), Eckert, Elgin K. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
Temas:
Food habits > Italy.
Food habits > Social aspects > Italy.
Food in popular culture > Italy.
National characteristics, Italian.
Cooking, Italian.
Habitudes alimentaires > Italie.
Habitudes alimentaires > Aspect social > Italie.
Aliments dans la culture populaire > Italie.
Italiens.
Cuisine italienne.
Cultural studies.
Food & society.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Agriculture & Food.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
HISTORY > Europe > Italy.
Food habits.
Food habits > Social aspects.
Food in popular culture.
Italy.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • FC; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Editors' Introduction: Presenting food, representing Italy Peter Naccarato, Zachary Nowak, and Elgin K. Eckert; PART ONE (Re)presenting iconic Italy; 1 And at last, the farmers win Massimo Montanari; 2 Authenticity all'italiana: Food discourses, diasporas, and the limits of cuisine in contemporary Italy Aliza S. Wong; 3 The Slow Food Movement and Facebook: The paradox of advocating slow living through fast technology Ginevra Adamoli.
  • PART TWO Representing Italy in literature and film4 Clara Sereni's Casalinghitudine: Recipes for political history Ernesto Livorni; 5 Inspector Montalbano a tavola: Food in Andrea Camilleri's police fiction Elgin K. Eckert; 6 There's a mobster in the kitchen: Cooking, eating, and complications of gender in The Godfather and Goodfellas Peter Naccarato; 7 In cibo veritas: Food preparation and consumption in Özpetek's "queer" films Elgin K. Eckert and Zachary Nowak; PART THREE Marketing, packaging, and advertising Italy.
  • 8 Producing consumers: Gendering Italy through food advertisements Diana Garvin9 "A kitchen with a view": The modernization of gender roles in Italy through Barilla's 1950s and 1960s advertising campaigns Antonella Valoroso; 10 Semiotics of sauce: Representing Italian/American identity through pasta sauces Maryann Tebben; PART FOUR Global representations of Italy; 11 Italianità in America: The cultural politics of representing "authentic" Italian Cuisine in the U.S. Ken Albala.
  • 12 Leggo's not-so-autentico: Invention and representation in twentieth century Italo-Australian foodways Rachel A. Ankeny and Tania Cammarano13 Italian food in Israel: Representing an Imagined Mediterranean Nir Avieli; 14 Afterword: Italy represented Peter Naccarato, Zachary Nowak, and Elgin K. Eckert; Index.

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