Feasting Our Eyes : Food Films and Cultural Identity in the United States.

By:

Lindenfeld, Laura

Contributor(s):

Parasecoli, Fabio

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: La Vergne : Columbia University Press, 2016.Description: 1 online resource (278 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0231542976
9780231542975

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Feasting Our Eyes : Food Films and Cultural Identity in the United States.DDC classification:

791.43/6564 23

LOC classification:

PN1995.9.F65 .L563 2017eb

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Contents:

Table of Contents ; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Food Films and Consumption: Selling Big Night; 2. Autonomy in the Kitchen? Food Films and Postfeminism; 3. Magical Food, Luscious Bodies; 4. Culinary Comfort: The Satiating Construction of Masculinity; 5. When Weirdos Stir the Pot: Cooking Identity in Animated Movies; 6. Consuming the Other: Food Films as Culinary Tourism; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: Big Night (1996), Ratatouille (2007), and Julie and Julia (2009) are more than films about food#x97;they serve a political purpose. In the kitchen, around the table, and in the dining room, these films use cooking and eating to explore such themes as ideological pluralism, ethnic and racial acceptance, gender equality, and class flexibility#x97;but not as progressively as you might think. Feasting Our Eyes takes a second look at these and other modern American food films to emphasize their conventional approaches to nation, gender, race, sexuality, and social status. Devoured visually and emotionally,

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Big Night (1996), Ratatouille (2007), and Julie and Julia (2009) are more than films about food#x97;they serve a political purpose. In the kitchen, around the table, and in the dining room, these films use cooking and eating to explore such themes as ideological pluralism, ethnic and racial acceptance, gender equality, and class flexibility#x97;but not as progressively as you might think. Feasting Our Eyes takes a second look at these and other modern American food films to emphasize their conventional approaches to nation, gender, race, sexuality, and social status. Devoured visually and emotionally,

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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