Appetites and anxieties : food, film, and the politics of representation /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baron, Cynthia
Other Authors: Carson, Diane, 1954-, Bernard, Mark
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2014]
Series:Contemporary approaches to film and media series
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of 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.