Food on film : bringing something new to the table / edited by Tom Hertweck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hertweck, Tom.

Series:

Film and history (Lanham, Md.)

Film and history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xix, 229 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.

Summary:

From early cinematic depictions of food as a symbol of ethnic and cultural identity to more complex contemporary portrayals, movies have demonstrated how our ideas about food are always changing. On the big and small screens, representations of addiction, starvation, and even food as fetish reinforce how important food is in our lives and in our culture. In Food on Film: Bringing Something New to the Table, Tom Hertweck brings together innovative viewpoints about a popular, yet understudied, subject in cinema. This collection explores the pervasiveness of food in film, from movies in which meals play a starring role to those that feature food and eating in supporting or cameo appearances. The volume asks provocative questions about food and its relationship with work, urban life, sexual orientation, the family, race, morality, and a wide range of "appetites." The fourteen essays by international, interdisciplinary scholars offer a wide range of perspectives on such films and television shows as The Color Purple, Do the Right Thing, Ratatouille, The Road, Sex and the City, Twin Peaks, and even Jaws. From first course to last, Food on Film will be of interest to scholars of film and television, sociology, anthropology, and cultural history. Book jacket.

Contents:

First courses: opening up new directions in food and film. "The average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so": reading (rhetorically) the restaurant review in Disney/Pixar's Ratatouille / Elisabeth H. Buck

Table talk: queer revelations through meals in Filipino gay-male films / Mark Destephano, S.J

"A nice cup of tea": tea culture in 1930s and 1940s British domestic documentary film / Lynn Hilditch

Food and African American film. Eat the right thing: the urban food desert of Spike Lee's Bed-Stuy / Deborah Adelman

"So good make you wanna slap yo mama": race, gender, and eating in the comedy film 'hood / Jessica Fanaselle and Joshua Culpepper

From disgust to gustatory pleasure: the evolution of alimentary and moral repulsion in Steven Spielberg's The color purple / Lynn R. Johnson

Feeding the family: new directions in food and non-American film. Taste, honor, and tradition in Il mafioso / Memory Holloway

Food, family, and history in Japanese postwar film: four cases and a few comparisons / Charles W. Hayford

Appetite and aroma: visual imagery and the perception of taste and smell in contemporary Korean film / Dotty Hamilton

Small screens, big appetites: food and television. Dale Cooper and the mouth-feel of Twin peaks / Andrew Hageman

Food and conversation in Sex and the city: fashion consumed, sex digested / Glenda Sacks

Eating humans: new ideas on the oldest taboo. "Little shakin', little tenderizin', and down you go": Jaws and humanity's fear of finding itself on the menu / Mark R. Bousquet

Sacrament to sacrilege: human flesh as sustenance in Alive and The road / Jennifer Dawes Adkison

New Zealand lamb is people: bad taste, black sheep, and farming / Christian B. Long.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781442243606

1442243600

OCLC:

887858531