Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
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.
Series:
Contemporary approaches to film and television series
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