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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826903803321

Titolo

Cuisine and symbolic capital [[electronic resource] ] : food in film and literature / / edited by Cheleen Ann-Catherine Mahar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2010

ISBN

1-4438-2255-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MaharCheleen

Disciplina

791.436559

Soggetti

Food in motion pictures

Food in literature

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.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF IMAGES; PREFACE; CONTRIBUTORS; CULINARY TRANSLATIONS OF IDENTITY; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; FOOD AS METAPHOR IN CONTEMPORARY GERMAN WRITING; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; LOVE, FEASTING AND THE SYMBOLIC POWER OF FOOD IN FRENCH WRITING; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of interdisciplinary essays examines food as it mediates social relationships and self-presentation in a variety of international films and literature. Authors explore the ways that making, eating and thinking about food reveals culture.