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Author Lindenfeld, Laura.

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

Publication Info. La Vergne : Columbia University Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource (278 pages)
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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,
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Food in motion pictures.
Food in motion pictures.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
Motion pictures.
United States.
History.
Food -- Social aspects -- United States.
Food -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Parasecoli, Fabio.
Other Form: Print version: Lindenfeld, Laura. Feasting Our Eyes : Food Films and Cultural Identity in the United States. La Vergne : Columbia University Press, ©2016 9780231172516
ISBN 0231542976
9780231542975 (electronic book)
9780231172509
0231172508
9780231172516
0231172516