Bower Reel Food

Essays on Food and Film
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-135-87586-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 364 Seiten

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bower, Anne L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Kochen, Essen, Trinken
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Watching Food: The Production of Food, Film, and Values, Anne L. Bower

Section I: Cooking Up Cultural Values

2. Feel Good Reel Food: A Taste of Cultural Kedgeree in Gurinder Chadha's What's Cooking?, Debnita Chakravarti

3. Food, Play, Business and the Image of Japan in 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's Big Night, Margaret Coyle

5.Cooking Mexicanness: Shaping National Identity in Alfonso Arau's Como agua
para chocolate, Miriam Lopez-Rodriguez

6. Chickens, Jams, and Kitchens: Modern Food and 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, Maria Ripolli's Tortilla Soup, and Tim Reid's Once Upon A Time When We Were Colored, Robin Balthrope

Section II: Focus on Women--the Body, the Spirit

9. Gendering the Feast: Women, Spirituality, and Grace in Three Food Films, Margaret McFadden

10. 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 Counihan

13. Images of Consumption in Jutta Bruckner's Hunger Years, Yogini Joglekar

Section III: Making Movies, Making Meals

14. 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 Films, Laurel Forster

19. Supper, Slapstick, and Social Class: Dinner as Machine in the Silent Films
of Buster Keaton, Eric L. Reinholtz

20. Banquet and Beast: The Civilizing Role of Food in 1930s Horror Films, Blair Davis

21. Engorged with Desire: Hitchcock Films and the Gendered Politics of Eating,
David Greven

22. What About the Popcorn? Food and Film-Watching Experiences, James Lyons

Über Autor(innen)

Anne L. Bower is Associate Professor of English at Ohio State University, Marion. She is author of Epistolary Responses: The Letter in 20th-Century American Fiction and Criticism and editor of Recipes for Reading: Community Cookbooks, Stories, Histories.