Culinary Cinema

Appetite, Narrative, and Community in Contemporary Film (livre en anglais)

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de Deborah R. Geis

Type

Etudes

Sujet

Généralités

Mots Clés

nourriture

Année d'édition

2025 (12 février 2025)

Editeur

Lexington Books

Langue

anglais

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Format

Relié • 252 pages
15 x 23 cm

ISBN

978-1-6669-5863-8

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Description de l'ouvrage :
In this book, Deborah Geis offers a new approach to the evolving genre of culinary films that center on the acts of eating and cooking through close analyses of ten different films. These films range from the classics, like Big Night (1996) and Babette’s Feast (1987) to later box-office hits, like Chef (2014) and to films that deserve a second look, like East Side Sushi (2014), Burnt (2015), and Mid-August Lunch (2008). Throughout these analyses, the book focuses on tropes including the “big dinner” as it connects to intercultural and transcultural communities; the self-destructive perfectionism of the obsessive chef; and the craft of cooking in relation to aging and mortality. Geis invites readers and viewers to experience food-driven narrative films with an appetite for appreciating the visual ingredients and the ways in which they construct pleasure through the act of looking as a vicarious approach to consuming the actual food. Drawing on the work of film theorist Christian Metz, Geis ultimately poses a new paradigm for watching and understanding culinary cinema as a significant – and constantly-evolving – genre that comes with its own conventions and contemporary filmmakers who seek to expand and transform those conventions in surprising ways.

À propos de l'auteur :
Deborah R. Geis is professor of English at DePauw University.

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