Appetites and Anxieties : Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation /

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Cinema is a mosaic of memorable food scenes. Detectives drink alone. Gangsters talk with their mouths full. Families around the world argue at dinner. Food documentaries challenge popular consumption-centered visions. In Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation, author...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Baron, Cynthia (Author), Bernard, Mark (Author), Carson, Diane (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Social aspects.
Food in motion pictures.
Documentary films.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Cinema > Aspect social.
Aliments au cinema.
Documentary films > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the cultural and material politics of food
  • Representations in film
  • Foodways as an ideological approach
  • Food and film industries: a filter for the food we see in films
  • Foodways syntax: utopian films' use of food to create community
  • Foodways structured to convey disorder and dysfunction
  • When humans are the food product: an ideological look at cannibal films
  • Food as threat and promise: genre and auteur analysis
  • Foodways in documentary films: consumer society in a wider frame
  • The politics surrounding documentaries' depiction of foodways
  • Food as a window into personal and cultural politics.

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