Food in Film: A Culinary Performance of Communication / Edition 1

by Jane Ferry

Overview

Using an interdisciplinary approach combining film, semiotics, social-anthropology and history, this book examines food sciences in selected films to reveal food's power to direct and impose values and beliefs, to understand how dining venues may become sites of social contests and to reveal how food communicated values and beliefs to individuals, to micro communities and to American Society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415945837
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/03/2003
Series:	Studies in American Popular History and Culture
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Ritual of Dining; Chapter 3 Food and Cultural Identity; Chapter 4 Food as Celebration and Connection; Chapter 5 Boundaries of Purity and Pollution; Chapter 6 Conclusion;