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From early cinematic depictions of food as a symbol of ethnic and cultural identity to more complex contemporary portrayals, movies have demonstrated how our ideas about food are always changing. On the big and small screens, representations of addiction, starvation, and even food as fetish reinforce how important food is in our lives and in our culture. In Food on Film: Bringing Something New to the Table, Tom Hertweck brings together innovative viewpoints about a popular, yet understudied, subject in cinema. This collection explores the pervasiveness of food in film, from movies in which meals play a starring role to those that feature food and eating in supporting or cameo appearances. The volume asks provocative questions about food and its relationship with work, urban life, sexual orientation, the family, race, morality, and a wide range of “appetites.”The fourteen essays by international, interdisciplinary scholars offer a wide range of perspectives on such films and television shows as The Color Purple, Do the Right Thing, Ratatouille, The Road, Sex and the City, Twin Peaks, and even Jaws. From first course to last, Food on Film will be of interest to scholars of film and television, sociology, anthropology, and cultural history.
Tom Hertweck teaches courses on film, adaptation, the poetics of food, and various topics in American literature and cultural history at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Acknowledgments Introduction: Bringing Something New to the TableTom Hertweck Part I: First Courses: Opening Up New Directions in Food and Film1. “The Average Piece of Junk Is Probably More Meaningful Than Our Criticism Designating It So”: Reading (Rhetorically) the Restaurant Review in Disney/Pixar’s RatatouilleElisabeth H. Buck 2. Table Talk: Queer Revelations through Meals in Filipino Gay-Male FilmsMark DeStephano, S.J. 3. “A Nice Cup of Tea”: Tea Culture in 1930s and 1940s British Documentary FilmLynn Hilditch Part II: Food and African American Film4. Eat the Right Thing: The Urban Food Desert of Spike Lee’s Bed-StuyDeborah Adelman 5. “So Good Make You Wanna Slap Yo Mama”: Race, Gender, and Eating in the Comedy Film ’HoodJessica Fanaselle and Joshua Culpepper 6. From Disgust to Gustatory Pleasure: The Evolution of Alimentary and Moral Repulsion in Steven Spielberg’s The Color PurpleLynn R. Johnson Part III: Feeding the Family: New Directions in Food and Non-American Film7. Taste, Honor, and Tradition in Il MafiosoMemory Holloway 8. Food, Family, and History in Japanese Postwar Film: Four Cases and a Few ComparisonsCharles W. Hayford 9. Appetite and Aroma: Visual Imagery and the Perception of Taste and Smell in Contemporary Korean FilmDotty Hamilton Part IV: Small Screens, Big Appetites: Food and Television10. Dale Cooper and the Mouth-Feel of Twin PeaksAndrew Hageman 11. Food and Conversation in Sex and the City: Fashion Consumed, Sex DigestedGlenda Sacks Part V: Eating Humans: New Ideas on the Oldest Taboo12. “Little Shakin’, Little Tenderizin’, and Down You Go”: Jaws and Humanity’s Fear of Finding Itself on the MenuMark R. Bousquet 13. Sacrament to Sacrilege: Human Flesh as Sustenance in Alive and The RoadJennifer Dawes Adkison 14. New Zealand Lamb Is People: Bad Taste, Black Sheep, and FarmingChristian B. Long IndexAbout the Editor and Contributors
Pleasure layering takes center stage in Tom Hertweck’s Food on Film. The author explores depictions of food from the earliest days of movies up to the present.
