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Keller, James R., 1960-

Food, film and culture : a genre study / James R. Keller.

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2006.

vi, 209 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

"Culinary imagery, much like sexual and violent imagery, is a key cinematic device used to elicit a sensory response from an audience. This book defines the food film genre, and analyzes the relationship between cinematic food imagery and various cultural constructs, including politics, family, identity, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender and religion"--Provided by publisher.

Food in motion pictures.

Culture in motion pictures.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-202) and index.

Includes filmography: p. 195-196.

The allegory of intemperance : Spenser and Greenaway's The cook, the thief, his wife, and her lover -- Itzam revealed : Chocolat and the Mayan cosmology -- Scotland, PA : Macbeth, McMeat and McMurder -- Four little Caligulas : La grande bouffe, consumption and male masochism -- What's cooking? : multiculturalism and holiday histrionics or a banquet of shouting -- Mostly Martha : appe/type and stereo/tite -- "Culinizing" the female form : Felicia's journey, predation, and cultural imperialism -- Dreaming of the pure vegetable kingdom : ecofeminism and agriculture in A thousand acres and Antonia's line -- The kitchen panopticon : indeterminacy and the myth of objective surveillance -- Filming and eating Italian : Big night and Dinner rush -- A chef in love : the fable of a communist and culinary re-evolution -- The artist in exile : Babette's and "Alexander's feast" -- Family suppers and the social syntax of dissimilation -- Food fights : the martial chefs and magical arts of Asian cinema.

791.43/6559

0786426160 (softcover : alk. paper)

9780786426164

362385

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