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 me

Using an interdisciplinary approach combining film, semiotics, social-anthropology and history, this book examines food sciences in selected films to reveal foo

Culinary imagery, much like sexual and violent imagery, is a key cinematic device used to elicit a sensory response from an audience. In many films, culinary im

The author examines the significance, and symbolic aspects of food: the preparation, cooking and eating; taste, taboo and territoriality; etiquette; barbecues a

This collection of interdisciplinary essays examines food as it mediates social relationships and self-presentation in a variety of international films and lite