| Description |
1 online resource (278 pages) |
| Contents |
Table of Contents ; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Food Films and Consumption: Selling Big Night; 2. Autonomy in the Kitchen? Food Films and Postfeminism; 3. Magical Food, Luscious Bodies; 4. Culinary Comfort: The Satiating Construction of Masculinity; 5. When Weirdos Stir the Pot: Cooking Identity in Animated Movies; 6. Consuming the Other: Food Films as Culinary Tourism; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Big Night (1996), Ratatouille (2007), and Julie and Julia (2009) are more than films about food they serve a political purpose. In the kitchen, around the table, and in the dining room, these films use cooking and eating to explore such themes as ideological pluralism, ethnic and racial acceptance, gender equality, and class flexibility but not as progressively as you might think. Feasting Our Eyes takes a second look at these and other modern American food films to emphasize their conventional approaches to nation, gender, race, sexuality, and social status. Devoured visually and emotionally, |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Food in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- United States -- History
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Food -- Social aspects -- United States
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Food in motion pictures
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Food -- Social aspects
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Motion pictures
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Parasecoli, Fabio
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| ISBN |
0231542976 |
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9780231542975 |
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