This is the first book devoted to food as a vibrant and evocative element of film. It reads various films through their uses of Food - from major "food films" like Babette's Feast and Big Night - to less obvious choices including The Godfather trilogy and The Matrix. The contributors draw attention to the various ways in which food is employed to make meaning in film. In some cases, such as Soul Food and Tortilla Soup, food is used to represent racial and ethnic identities. In other cases, such as Chocolat and Like Water for Chocolate, food plays a role in gender and sexual politics. And, of course, there is also discussion of the centrality of popcorn to the movie-going experience. This book is a feast for scholars, "foodies," and cinema buffs. It will be of major interest to anyone working in popular culture, film studies, and food studies, at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Anne Bower's Reel Food is an intellectual feast, where each essay serves a delicious new course filled with meaty morsels and delightful aromas. It provides thoughtful lenses in which to view the culinary dimensions of all films, but be prepared to reexamine the taste sensations of traditional food movies, such as Chocolat, Babette's Feast, Eat Drink Man Woman, and Tortilla Soup. I ignored the incessant urge to put the book down and head to out to the video rental store to pick up the films devoured in this book. I'll never look at a movie without seeing its culinary dimensions in new ways. So, make some popcorn and settle down in your easy chair-you're headed for a great read |o Andrew F. Smith, editor-in-chief, Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America From sci-fi to horror, from romance to adventure, the films discussed in this collection are enriched by cogent analyses of the ways food is used to signal issues of cultural identity, assimilation, and conflict.
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"Anne Bower's Reel Food is an intellectual feast, where each essay serves a delicious new course filled with meaty morsels and delightful aromas. It provides thoughtful lenses in which to view the culinary dimensions of all films, but be prepared to reexamine the taste sensations of traditional food movies, such as Chocolat, Babette's Feast, Eat Drink Man Woman, and Tortilla Soup. I ignored the incessant urge to put the book down and head to out to the video rental store to pick up the films devoured in this book. I'll never look at a movie without seeing its culinary dimensions in new ways. So, make some popcorn and settle down in your easy chair--you're headed for a great read." -- Andrew F. Smith, editor-in-chief, Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America
"From sci-fi to horror, from romance to adventure, the films discussed in this collection are enriched by cogent analyses of the ways food is used to signal issues of cultural identity, assimilation, and conflict. With Reel Food, you won't need popcorn." -- Darra Goldstein, Editor, Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture
"Reel Food is the go-to book for anyone interested in the rich intersections between food and film studies. The compelling, wide-ranging essays gathered here demonstrate that if you are interested in film, then you can't ignore food, and vice versa
." -- Doris Witt, author of Black Hunger: Soul Food and America
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Anne L. Bower is Associate Professor of English at Ohio State University, Marion. She is author of Epistolary Responses: The Letter in 20th-Century American Fiction and Criticism and editor of Recipes for Reading: Community Cookbooks, Stories, Histories.
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Whenever I told friends I was working on a book about food and film, they instantly tossed out the names of movies that occurred to them, usually ones in which a main character is a professional cook, like Stanley Tucci and Scott Campbell's Big Night (1995), Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast (Babette's gaestehud 1987), or Claire Denni's Chocolat (1989), or those in which food formulates a dominant symbol system, as in Marco Ferreri's Blow-Out (La Grante Bouffe, 1973). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Pulp Fiction, United States, Big Mama, Quentin Tarantino, Big Night, African American, Los Angeles, United Kingdom, Peter Greenaway, The Scarecrow, Stanley Tucci, Honey Bunny, Raise the Red Lantern, What's Cooking, Buster Keaton, Cambridge University Press, Lourdes Portillo, Luisa Amanda, The Navigator, University of California Press, Woody Allen, Carole Counihan, The Electric House, Annie Hall New!
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Whenever I told friends I was working on a book about food and film, they instantly tossed out the names of movies that occurred to them, usually ones in which a main character is a professional cook, like Stanley Tucci and Scott Campbell's Big Night (1995), Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast (Babette's gaestehud 1987), or Claire Denni's Chocolat (1989), or those in which food formulates a dominant symbol system, as in Marco Ferreri's Blow-Out (La Grante Bouffe, 1973). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Pulp Fiction, United States, Big Mama, Quentin Tarantino, Big Night, African American, Los Angeles, United Kingdom, Peter Greenaway, The Scarecrow, Stanley Tucci, Honey Bunny, Raise the Red Lantern, What's Cooking, Buster Keaton, Cambridge University Press, Lourdes Portillo, Luisa Amanda, The Navigator, University of California Press, Woody Allen, Carole Counihan, The Electric House, Annie Hall New!
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- Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino on 12 pages
- Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquivel on 7 pages
- Annie Hall by Woody Allen on 4 pages
- The Island of Dr. Moreau (Bantam Classics) by H.G. Wells on page 282, page 287, and page 296
- Peter Greenaway: The Belly Of An Architect by Peter Greenaway on page 220, page 222, and page 234
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- Reel Food: Essays on Food and Film by Anne L. Bower on page 10
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