Food in Film: A Culinary Performance of Communication

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:	9781317793908
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/23/2014
Series:	Studies in American Popular History and Culture
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Jane F. Ferry

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;