This work examines food scenes 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 communicates values and beliefs to individuals, to micro communities, and to American society. Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture. Num Pages: 136 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 363. . 2003. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Food in Film: A Culinary Performance of Communication (Studies in American Popular History and Culture)
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2003
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0415945836
ISBN 13: 9780415945837
Binding: Hardcover
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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.

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