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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812414103321

Autore

Baron Cynthia

Titolo

Appetites and anxieties : food, film, and the politics of representation / / Cynthia Baron, Diane Carson, Mark Bernard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, Michigan : , : Wayne State University Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-8143-3805-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 p.)

Collana

Contemporary approaches to film and media series

Altri autori (Persone)

CarsonDiane <1954->

BernardMark

Disciplina

791.43/6564

Soggetti

Food in motion pictures

Motion pictures - Social aspects

Documentary films - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.

Nota di contenuto

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.