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29%OFFLaura Lindenfeld - Feasting Our Eyes: Food Films and Cultural Identity in the United States - 9780231172516 - V9780231172516
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Feasting Our Eyes: Food Films and Cultural Identity in the United States

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Description for Feasting Our Eyes: Food Films and Cultural Identity in the United States Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 26 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFN; JFCV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
Big Night (1996), Ratatouille (2007), and Julie and Julia (2009) are more than films about food-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-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, these films are particularly effective defenders of the ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231172516
SKU
V9780231172516
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Ref
99-1

About Laura Lindenfeld
Laura Lindenfeld is director of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and professor at the School of Journalism at Stony Brook University. Her work has appeared in Text & Performance Quarterly, Food & Foodways, and the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication. Fabio Parasecoli is associate professor and director of food studies initiatives at the New School in ... Read more

Reviews for Feasting Our Eyes: Food Films and Cultural Identity in the United States
In Feasting Our Eyes: Food Films and Cultural Identity in the United States, Laura Lindenfeld and Fabio Parasecoli offer a comprehensive study of food films. They frame their discussion around multiple themes that connect food films to identity formation in the United States including race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. It is an essential read for all interested in the intersections ... Read more

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