Food in film : a culinary performance of communication / Jane F. Ferry.
"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 rev...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2003.
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| Series: | American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm)).
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| Summary: | "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."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 127 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-121) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0415945836 9780415945837 |