Food in Film: A Culinary Performance of Communication (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781138864535)

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.

Author: Jane Ferry
ISBN-10: 1138864536
ISBN-13: 9781138864535
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 04/23/2015
Pages: 135
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.29d