James R. Keller: Food, Film and Culture

Cover: 9780786426164 | Food, Film and Culture | A Genre Study | James R. Keller | Taschenbuch

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Beschreibung

Culinary imagery, much like sexual and violent imagery, is a key cinematic device used to elicit a sensory response from an audience. In many films, culinary imagery is central enough to constitute a new subgenre, defined by films in which food production, preparation, service, and consumption play a major part in the development of character, structure, or theme.
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. Chapters examine these themes in several well-known food films, such as The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Chocolat, Babette's Feast, and Eat Drink Man Woman, and lesser-known productions, including Felicia's Journey, Kitchen Stories, Magic Kitchen, and Chinese Feast. The work includes a filmography of movies within the food genre.
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Über den Autor

James R. Keller is a professor and chair of the English and Theatre department at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky. The author or editor of numerous works about popular culture, he lives in Lexington, Kentucky.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Cinematic Hunger Artists

1: The Allegory of Intemperance: Spenser and Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

2: Itzam Revealed: Chocolat and the Mayan Cosmology

3: Scotland, PA: Macbeth, McMeat and McMurder

4: Four Little Caligulas: La Grande Bouffe, Consumption and Male Masochism

5: What's Cooking?: Multiculturalism and Holiday Histrionics or a Banquet of Shouting

6: Mostly Martha: Appe/type and Stereo/tite

7: "Culinizing" the Female Form: Felicia's Journey, Predation, and Cultural Imperialism

8: Dreaming of the Pure Vegetable Kingdom: Ecofeminism and Agriculture in A Thousand Acres and Antonia's Line 94

9: The Kitchen Panopticon: Indeterminacy and the Myth of Objective Surveillance

10: Filming and Eating Italian: Big Night and Dinner Rush

11: A Chef in Love: The Fable of a Communist and Culinary Re-Evolution

12: The Artist in Exile: Babette's and "Alexander's Feast"

13: Family Suppers and the Social Syntax of Dissimilation

14: Food Fights: The Martial Chefs and Magical Arts of Asian Cinema

Conclusion
Appendix: Food Films
Bibliography
Index

Details

Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	2006
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Sozialwissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780786426164
ISBN-10:	0786426160
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Keller, James R.
Hersteller:	McFarland
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 12 mm
Von/Mit:	James R. Keller
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.09.2006
Gewicht:	0,321 kg