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Appetites and anxieties : food, film, and the politics of representation
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Appetites and anxieties : food, film, and the politics of representation / Cynthia Baron, Diane Carson, Mark Bernard.
ISBN
9780814334317 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0814334318 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814338056 (e-book)
Publication
Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2014]
Physical Description
viii, 334 pages ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 06, 2014
Series
Contemporary approaches to film and television series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography.
Contents
Introduction: the cultural and material politics of food
Representations in film
Foodways as an ideological approach
Food and film industries: a filter for the food we see in films
Foodways syntax: utopian films' use of food to create community
Foodways structured to convey disorder and dysfunction
When humans are the food product: an ideological look at cannibal films
Food as threat and promise: genre and auteur analysis
Foodways in documentary films: consumer society in a wider frame
The politics surrounding documentaries' depiction of foodways
Food as a window into personal and cultural politics.
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