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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786530603321

Autore

Ferry Jane <1941-, >

Titolo

Food in film : a culinary performance of communication / / Jane F. Ferry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2014

ISBN

1-317-79390-0

1-315-81089-1

1-317-79391-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (136 p.)

Collana

American Popular History and Culture

Disciplina

791.43/655

Soggetti

Food in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2003 by Routledge.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION; Scholarly Research; Methodology; Semiology; Social-Anthropology; Film; CHAPTER TWO THE RITUAL OF DINING; Dining Scene One: Gossip as Social Cannibalism; Dining Scene Two: Rejection Declares Resistance; Dining Scene Three: The Van der Luydens' Power Play; Dining Scene Four: Negotiating the Terms of Acceptance; Dining Scene Five: A Brief Hiatus from Repression; Dining Scene Six: The Matriarchal Magistrates Rule; Dining Scene Seven: Weeding Out Undesirables; Dining Scene Eight: Banishing the Enemy

CHAPTER THREE FOOD AND CULTURAL IDENTITYTaste; Identity; Restaurants; Haute Cuisine; Popular Cuisine; CHAPTER FOUR FOOD AS CELEBRATION AND CONNECTION; Food as Constituting Freedom; Food: The Power of Illumination; Soul Food as Coercive Force; CHAPTER FIVE BOUNDARIES OF PURITY AND POLLUTION: THE DINING SPACE; Films; Places of Opposition; Boundaries of Purity and Pollution; Structural Changes and Landscape of Power; Family Structure; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX FILM SYNOPSES; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.