James R. Keller

Food, Film and Culture

A Genre Study

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Produktbeschreibung

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. This work includes a filmography of movies within the food genre.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland & Co Inc
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 320g
• ISBN-13: 9780786426164
• ISBN-10: 0786426160
• Artikelnr.: 22112566

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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