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Food in film : a culinary performance of communication / Jane F. Ferry.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.F65 F47 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ferry, Jane, 1941-
- Series:
- American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))
- American popular history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 127 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2003.
- Summary:
- Using an interdisciplinary approach combining film, semiotics, social-anthropology and history, this book examines food sciences in selected films to reveal food's power to direct and impose values and beliefs, to understand how dining venues may become sites of social contests and to reveal how food communicated values and beliefs to individuals, to micro communities and to American Society.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-121) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415945836
- OCLC:
- 51931190
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