Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation

by Diane Carson, Cynthia Baron, Mark Bernard

Employs the foodways paradigm to analyze the ideological dimensions of food imagery and food behavior in fiction and documentary films.

Cinema is a mosaic of memorable food scenes. Detectives drink alone. Gangsters talk with their mouths full. Families around the world argue at dinner. Food documentaries challenge popular consumption-centered visions. In Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814334318
• ISBN13: 9780814334317
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"