04656nam 2200517 a 450 991046239550332120200520144314.01-283-54635-31-135-87586-39786613858801(CKB)2670000000238125(EBL)199678(OCoLC)252951847(MiAaPQ)EBC199678(Au-PeEL)EBL199678(CaPaEBR)ebr10094766(CaONFJC)MIL10684(OCoLC)57587156(EXLCZ)99267000000023812520040121d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||Reel food[electronic resource] essays on food and film /edited by Anne L. BowerNew York Routledgec20041 online resource (349 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-97110-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Cover; Reel Food: Essays on Food and Film; Copyright Page; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; 1. Watching Food: The Production of Food, Film, and Values: Anne L. Bower; Cooking Up Cultural Values; 2. Feel Good Reel Food: A Taste of the Cultural Kedgeree in Gurinder Chadha's: Debnita Chakravarti; 3. Food, Play, Business, and the Image of Japan in Itami Juzo's Tampopo: Michael Ashkenazi; 4. Il Timpano -"To Eat Good Food Is to Be Close to God": The Italian-American Reconciliation of Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott's Big Night: Margaret Coyle5. Cooking Mexicanness: Shaping National Identity in Alfonso Arau's Como agua para chocolate: Miriam López-rodríguez6. Chickens, Cakes, and Kitchens: Food and Modernity in Malay Films of the 1950s and 1960s: Timothy P. Barnard; 7. "I'll Have Whatever She's Having": Jews, Food, and Film: Nathan Abrams; 8. Food as Representative of Ethnicity and Culture in George Tillman Jr.'s Soul Food, María Ripoll's Tortilla Soup, and Tim Reid's Once upon a Time When We Were Colored: Robin Balthrope; Focus on Gender-The Body, the Spirit9. Gendering the Feast: Women, Spirituality, and Grace in Three Food Films: Margaret H. Mcfadden10. Food, Sex, and Power at the Dining Room Table in Zhang Yimou's Raise the Red Lantern: Ellen J. Fried; 11. Anorexia Envisioned: Mike Leigh's Life is Sweet, Chul-Soo Park's 301/302, and Todd Haynes's Superstar: Gretchen Papazian; 12. Production, Reproduction, Food, and Women in Herbert Biberman's Salt of the Earth and Lourdes Portillo and Nina Serrano's After the Earthquake: Carole M. Counihan; 13. Images of Consumption in Jutta Brückner's Years of Hunger: Yogini JoglekarMaking Movies, Making Meals14. Appetite for Destruction: Gangster Food and Genre Convention in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction: Rebecca L. Epstein; 15. "Leave the Gun; Take the Cannoli": Food and Family in the Modern American Mafia Film: Marlisa Santos; 16. All-Consuming Passions: Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover: Raymond Armstrong; 17. Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's Delicatessen: An Ambiguous Memory, an Ambivalent Meal: Kyri Watson Claflin; 18. Futuristic Foodways: The Metaphorical Meaning of Food in Science Fiction Film: Laurel Forster19. Supper, Slapstick, and Social Class: Dinner as Machine in the Silent Films of Buster Keaton: Eric L. Reinholtz20. Banquet and the Beast: The Civilizing Role of Food in 1930s Horror Films: Blair Davis; 21. Engorged with Desire: The Films of Alfred Hitchcock and the Gendered Politics of Eating: David Greven; 22. What about the Popcorn? Food and the Film-Watching Experience: James Lyons; Notes on Contributors; IndexReel Food is the first book devoted to food as a vibrant and evocative element of film, featuring original essays by major food studies scholars, among them Carole Counihan and Michael Ashkenazi. This collection reads various films through their uses of food-from major ""food films"" like Babette's Feast and Big Night to less obvious choices including The Godfather trilogy and The Matrix. The contributors draw attention to the various ways in which food is employed to make meaning in film. In some cases, such as Soul Food and Tortilla Soup, for example, food is used to represent racial and ethFood in motion picturesElectronic books.Food in motion pictures.791.43/6559Bower Anne868967MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462395503321Reel food1939859UNINA