This collection addresses the relative scarcity of work relating to food-film studies, showcasing innovative viewpoints about a popular, yet understudied, subject in film. The volume asks provocative questions about food and its relationship with work, urban life, sexual orientation, the family, race, morality, and a wide range of "appetites."
This collection addresses the relative scarcity of work relating to food-film studies, showcasing innovative viewpoints about a popular, yet understudied, subject in film. The volume asks provocative questions about food and its relationship with work, urban life, sexual orientation, the family, race, morality, and a wide range of "appetites."
Tom Hertweck teaches courses on film, adaptation, the poetics of food, and various topics in American literature and cultural history at the University of Nevada, Reno.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Bringing Something New to the Table Tom Hertweck Part I: First Courses: Opening Up New Directions in Food and Film 1. "The Average Piece of Junk Is Probably More Meaningful Than Our Criticism Designating It So": Reading (Rhetorically) the Restaurant Review in Disney/Pixar's Ratatouille Elisabeth H. Buck 2. Table Talk: Queer Revelations through Meals in Filipino Gay-Male Films Mark DeStephano, S.J. 3. "A Nice Cup of Tea": Tea Culture in 1930s and 1940s British Documentary Film Lynn Hilditch Part II: Food and African American Film 4. Eat the Right Thing: The Urban Food Desert of Spike Lee's Bed-Stuy Deborah Adelman 5. "So Good Make You Wanna Slap Yo Mama": Race, Gender, and Eating in the Comedy Film 'Hood Jessica Fanaselle and Joshua Culpepper 6. From Disgust to Gustatory Pleasure: The Evolution of Alimentary and Moral Repulsion in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple Lynn R. Johnson Part III: Feeding the Family: New Directions in Food and Non-American Film 7. Taste, Honor, and Tradition in Il Mafioso Memory Holloway 8. Food, Family, and History in Japanese Postwar Film: Four Cases and a Few Comparisons Charles W. Hayford 9. Appetite and Aroma: Visual Imagery and the Perception of Taste and Smell in Contemporary Korean Film Dotty Hamilton Part IV: Small Screens, Big Appetites: Food and Television 10. Dale Cooper and the Mouth-Feel of Twin Peaks Andrew Hageman 11. Food and Conversation in Sex and the City: Fashion Consumed, Sex Digested Glenda Sacks Part V: Eating Humans: New Ideas on the Oldest Taboo 12. "Little Shakin', Little Tenderizin', and Down You Go": Jaws and Humanity's Fear of Finding Itself on the Menu Mark R. Bousquet 13. Sacrament to Sacrilege: Human Flesh as Sustenance in Alive and The Road Jennifer Dawes Adkison 14. New Zealand Lamb Is People: Bad Taste, Black Sheep, and Farming Christian B. Long Index About the Editor and Contributors
Acknowledgments Introduction: Bringing Something New to the Table Tom Hertweck Part I: First Courses: Opening Up New Directions in Food and Film 1. "The Average Piece of Junk Is Probably More Meaningful Than Our Criticism Designating It So": Reading (Rhetorically) the Restaurant Review in Disney/Pixar's Ratatouille Elisabeth H. Buck 2. Table Talk: Queer Revelations through Meals in Filipino Gay-Male Films Mark DeStephano, S.J. 3. "A Nice Cup of Tea": Tea Culture in 1930s and 1940s British Documentary Film Lynn Hilditch Part II: Food and African American Film 4. Eat the Right Thing: The Urban Food Desert of Spike Lee's Bed-Stuy Deborah Adelman 5. "So Good Make You Wanna Slap Yo Mama": Race, Gender, and Eating in the Comedy Film 'Hood Jessica Fanaselle and Joshua Culpepper 6. From Disgust to Gustatory Pleasure: The Evolution of Alimentary and Moral Repulsion in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple Lynn R. Johnson Part III: Feeding the Family: New Directions in Food and Non-American Film 7. Taste, Honor, and Tradition in Il Mafioso Memory Holloway 8. Food, Family, and History in Japanese Postwar Film: Four Cases and a Few Comparisons Charles W. Hayford 9. Appetite and Aroma: Visual Imagery and the Perception of Taste and Smell in Contemporary Korean Film Dotty Hamilton Part IV: Small Screens, Big Appetites: Food and Television 10. Dale Cooper and the Mouth-Feel of Twin Peaks Andrew Hageman 11. Food and Conversation in Sex and the City: Fashion Consumed, Sex Digested Glenda Sacks Part V: Eating Humans: New Ideas on the Oldest Taboo 12. "Little Shakin', Little Tenderizin', and Down You Go": Jaws and Humanity's Fear of Finding Itself on the Menu Mark R. Bousquet 13. Sacrament to Sacrilege: Human Flesh as Sustenance in Alive and The Road Jennifer Dawes Adkison 14. New Zealand Lamb Is People: Bad Taste, Black Sheep, and Farming Christian B. Long Index About the Editor and Contributors
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