Reel Food: Essays on Food and Film
Reel Food is the first book devoted to food as a vibrant and evocative element of film, featuring original essays by major food studies scholars, among them Carole Counihan and Michael Ashkenazi. This collection reads various films through their uses of food-from major "food films" like Babette's Feast and Big Night to less obvious choices including The Godfather trilogy and The Matrix. The contributors draw attention to the various ways in which food is employed to make meaning in film. In...
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Reel Food is the first book devoted to food as a vibrant and evocative element of film, featuring original essays by major food studies scholars, among them Carole Counihan and Michael Ashkenazi. This collection reads various films through their uses of food-from major "food films" like Babette's Feast and Big Night to less obvious choices including The Godfather trilogy and The Matrix. The contributors draw attention to the various ways in which food is employed to make meaning in film. In some cases, such as Soul Food and Tortilla Soup, for example, food is used to represent racial and ethnic identities. In other cases, such as Chocolat and Like Water for Chocolate, food plays a role in gender and sexual politics. And, of course, there is also discussion of the centrality of popcorn to the movie-going experience.This book is a feast for scholars, "foodies," and cinema buffs. It will be of major interest to anyone working in popular cul
1Watching food : the production of food, film, and values12Feel good reel food : a taste of the cultural kedgeree in Gurinder Chadha's What's cooking?173Food, play, business, and the image of Japan in Itami Juzo's Tampopo274Il Timpano - "to eat good food is to be close to God" : the Italian-American reconciliation of Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott's Big night415Cooking Mexicanness : shaping national identity in Alfonso Arau's Como agua para chocolate616Chickens, cakes, and kitchens : food and modernity in Malay films of the 1950s and 1960s757"I'll have whatever she's having" : Jews, food, and film878Food as representative of ethnicity and culture in George Tillman, Jr.'s Soul food, Maria Ripoll's Tortilla soup, and Tim Reid's Once upon a time when we were colored1019Gendering the feast : women, spirituality, and grace in three food films11710Food, sex, and power at the dining room table in Zhang Yimou's Raise the red lantern12911Anorexia envisioned : Mike Leigh's Life is sweet, Chul-Soo Park's 301/302, and Todd Haynes's Superstar14712Production, reproduction, food, and women in Herbert Biberman's Salt of the earth and Lourdes Portillo and Nina Serrano's After the earthquake16713Images of consumption in Jutta Bruckner's Years of hunger18114Appetite for destruction : gangster food and genre convention in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp fiction19515"Leave the gun; take the cannoli" : food and family in the Modern American mafia film20916All-consuming passions : Peter Greenaway's The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover21917Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's Delicatessen : an ambiguous memory, an ambivalent meal23518Futuristic foodways : the metaphorical meaning of food in science fiction film25119Supper, slapstick, and social class : dinner as machine in the silent films of Buster Keaton26720Banquet and the beast : the civilizing role of food in 1930s horror films28121Engorged with desire : the films of Alfred Hitchcock and the gendered politics of eating29722What about the popcorn? : food and the film-watching experience311
