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This collection addresses the relative scarcity of work relating to food-film studies, showcasing innovative viewpoints about a popular, yet understudied, subject in film. 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."
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Bringing Something New to the Table
Tom Hertweck
Part I: First Courses: Opening Up New Directions in Food and Film
1. "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
2. Table Talk: Queer Revelations through Meals in Filipino Gay-Male Films
Mark DeStephano, S.J.
3. "A Nice Cup of Tea": Tea Culture in 1930s and 1940s British Documentary Film
Lynn Hilditch
Part II: Food and African American Film
4. Eat the Right Thing: The Urban Food Desert of Spike Lee's Bed-Stuy
Deborah Adelman
5. "So Good Make You Wanna Slap Yo Mama": Race, Gender, and Eating in the Comedy Film 'Hood
Jessica Fanaselle and Joshua Culpepper
6. From Disgust to Gustatory Pleasure: The Evolution of Alimentary and Moral Repulsion in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple
Lynn R. Johnson
Part III: Feeding the Family: New Directions in Food and Non-American Film
7. Taste, Honor, and Tradition in Il Mafioso
Memory Holloway
8. Food, Family, and History in Japanese Postwar Film: Four Cases and a Few Comparisons
Charles W. Hayford
9. Appetite and Aroma: Visual Imagery and the Perception of Taste and Smell in Contemporary Korean Film
Dotty Hamilton
Part IV: Small Screens, Big Appetites: Food and Television
10. Dale Cooper and the Mouth-Feel of Twin Peaks
Andrew Hageman
11. Food and Conversation in Sex and the City: Fashion Consumed, Sex Digested
Glenda Sacks
Part V: Eating Humans: New Ideas on the Oldest Taboo
12. "Little Shakin', Little Tenderizin', and Down You Go": Jaws and Humanity's Fear of Finding Itself on the Menu
Mark R. Bousquet
13. Sacrament to Sacrilege: Human Flesh as Sustenance in Alive and The Road
Jennifer Dawes Adkison
14. New Zealand Lamb Is People: Bad Taste, Black Sheep, and Farming
Christian B. Long
Index
About the Editor and Contributors
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Tom Hertweck teaches courses on film, adaptation, the poetics of food, and various topics in American literature and cultural history at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Zusammenfassung
This collection addresses the relative scarcity of work relating to food-film studies, showcasing innovative viewpoints about a popular, yet understudied, subject in film. 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.”
