Feasting Our Eyes

Feasting Our Eyes
Author :
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 278
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780231542975
ISBN-13 : 0231542976
Rating : 4/5 (976 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Feasting Our Eyes by : Laura Lindenfeld

Download or read book Feasting Our Eyes written by Laura Lindenfeld and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Night (1996), Ratatouille (2007), and Julie and Julia (2009) are more than films about food—they serve a political purpose. In the kitchen, around the table, and in the dining room, these films use cooking and eating to explore such themes as ideological pluralism, ethnic and racial acceptance, gender equality, and class flexibility—but not as progressively as you might think. Feasting Our Eyes takes a second look at these and other modern American food films to emphasize their conventional approaches to nation, gender, race, sexuality, and social status. Devoured visually and emotionally, these films are particularly effective defenders of the status quo. Feasting Our Eyes looks at Hollywood films and independent cinema, documentaries and docufictions, from the 1990s to today and frankly assesses their commitment to racial diversity, tolerance, and liberal political ideas. Laura Lindenfeld and Fabio Parasecoli find women and people of color continue to be treated as objects of consumption even in these modern works and, despite their progressive veneer, American food films often mask a conservative politics that makes commercial success more likely. A major force in mainstream entertainment, American food films shape our sense of who belongs, who has a voice, and who has opportunities in American society. They facilitate the virtual consumption of traditional notions of identity and citizenship, reworking and reinforcing ingrained ideas of power.


Feasting Our Eyes Related Books

Feasting Our Eyes
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: Laura Lindenfeld
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-29 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

GET EBOOK

Big Night (1996), Ratatouille (2007), and Julie and Julia (2009) are more than films about food—they serve a political purpose. In the kitchen, around the tab
Feast Your Eyes
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Myla Goldberg
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-18 - Publisher: Scribner

GET EBOOK

ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Finalist 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 2020 Chautauqua Prize Fin
Feasting Our Eyes
Language: en
Pages: 584
Authors: Laura Ann Lindenfeld
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

Feast Your Eyes
Language: en
Pages: 160
Authors: Susan J. Pennington
Categories: Gardening
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-11-26 - Publisher: University of California Press

GET EBOOK

In recent years, vegetable gardening has made a comeback as a popular pastime in America. Yet, gardeners are creating vegetable gardens with a difference; they
A Feast for the Eyes
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Christina Normore
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

GET EBOOK

"A Feast for the Eyes is the first book-length study of the court banquets of northwestern Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries"--Jacket.