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Appetites and anxieties : food, film, and the politics of representation / Cynthia Baron, Diane Carson, Mark Bernard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baron, Cynthia.
- Series:
- Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
- Contemporary approaches to film and media series
- Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects.
- Motion pictures.
- Documentary films--History and criticism.
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (346 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Scholars of film studies and food studies will enjoy the thought-provoking analysis of Appetites and Anxieties.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes filmography.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780814338056
- 0814338054
- OCLC:
- 872122583
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