Feasting Our Eyes - Food Films and Cultural Identity in the United States

Informationen zum Autor Laura Lindenfeld is director of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and professor at the School of Journalism at Stony Brook University. Her work has appeared in Text & Performance Quarterly , Food & Foodways , and the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication . Fabio Parasecoli is associate professor and director of food studies initiatives at the New School in New York City. Recent books include Bite me! Food in Popular Culture (2008); the six-volume Cultural History of Food , coedited with Peter Scholliers (2012); and Al Dente: A History of Food in Italy (2014). Klappentext Feasting Our Eyes takes a second look at modern American food films to emphasize their conventional approaches to nation, gender, race, sexuality, and social status. Devoured visually and emotionally, these films are particularly effective defenders of the status quo. Zusammenfassung Feasting Our Eyes takes a second look at modern American food films to emphasize their conventional approaches to nation! gender! race! sexuality! and social status. Devoured visually and emotionally! these films are particularly effective defenders of the status quo. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: Laura Lindenfeld, Laura Parasecoli Lindenfeld, Lindenfeld Laura, Fabio Parasecoli, Fabio Lindenfeld Parasecoli, Parasecoli Fabio
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.11.2016
• EAN: 9780231172516
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17251-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > General, dictionaries, tables; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Cultural studies: food and society, Film: styles and genres, Film history, theory or criticism, Cooking; Film