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-centred visions. In Appetites and Anxieties: Food,
Film, and the Politics of Representation, authors Cynthia Baron,
Diane Carson, and Mark Bernard use a foodways paradigm, drawn from
the fields of folklore and cultural anthropology, to illuminate
film's cultural and material politics. In looking at how films do
and do not represent food procurement, preparation, presentation,
consumption, clean-up, and disposal, the authors bring the
pleasures, dangers, and implications of consumption to centre
stage. In nine chapters, Baron, Carson, and Bernard consider food
in fiction films and documentaries-from both American and
international cinema. The first chapter examines film practice from
the foodways perspective, supplying a foundation for the collection
of case studies that follow. Chapter 2 takes a political economy
approach as it examines the food industry and the film industry's
policies that determine representations of food in film. In chapter
3, the authors explore food and food interactions as a means for
creating community in Bagdad Cafe, while in chapter 4 they take a
close look at 301/302, in which food is used to mount social
critique. Chapter 5 focuses on cannibal films, showing how the
foodways paradigm unlocks the implications of films that dramatise
one of society's greatest food taboos. In chapter 6, the authors
demonstrate ways that insights generated by the foodways lens can
enrich genre and auteur studies. Chapter 7 considers documentaries
about food and water resources, while chapter 8 examines food
documentaries that slip through the cracks of film censorship by
going into exhibition without an MPAA rating. Finally, in chapter
9, the authors study films from several national cinemas to explore
the intersection of food, gender, and ethnicity. Four appendices
provide insights from a food stylist, a selected filmography of
fiction films and a filmography of documentaries that feature
foodways components, and a list of selected works in food and
cultural studies. Scholars of film studies and food studies will
enjoy the thought-provoking analysis of Appetites and Anxieties.
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