Download or read book Food in Film written by Jane Ferry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.