Reel Food : Essays on Food and Film

Acknowledgments v Watching Food: The Production of Food, Film, and Values 1(16) Anne L. Bower Cooking Up Cultural Values Feel Good Reel Food: A Taste of the Cultural Kedgeree in Gurinder Chadha's What's Cooking? 17(10) Debnita Chakravarti Food, Play, Business, and the Image of Japan in Itami Juzo's Tampopo 27(14) Michael Ashkenazi Il Timpano---``To Eat Good Food Is to Be Close to God'': The Italian-American Reconciliation of Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott's Big Night 41(20) Margaret Coyle Cooking Mexicanness: Shaping National Identity in Alfonso Arau's Como agua para chocolate 61(14) Miriam Lopez-Rodriguez Chickens, Cakes, and Kitchens: Food and Modernity in Malay Films of the 1950s and 1960s 75(12) Timothy P. Barnard ``I'll Have Whatever She's Having'': Jews, Food, and Film 87(14) Nathan Abrams Food as Representative of Ethnicity and Culture in George Tillman Jr.'s Soul Food, Maria Ripoll's Tortilla Soup, and Tim Reid's Once upon a Time When We Were Colored 101(16) Robin Balthrope Focus on Gender---The Body, the Spirit Gendering the Feast: Women, Spirituality, and Grace in Three Food Films 117(12) Margaret H. McFadden Food, Sex, and Power at the Dining Room Table in Zhang Yimou's Raise the Red Lantern 129(18) Ellen J. Fried Anorexia Envisioned: Mike Leigh's Life is Sweet, Chul-Soo Park's 301/302, and Todd Haynes's Superstar 147(20) Gretchen Papazian Production, Reproduction, Food, and Women in Herbert Biberman's Salt of the Earth and Lourdes Portillo and Nina Serrano's After the Earthquake 167(14) Carole M. Counihan Images of Consumption in Jutta Bruckner's Years of Hunger 181(14) Yogini Joglekar Making Movies, Making Meals Appetite for Destruction: Gangster Food and Genre Convention in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction 195(14) Rebecca L. Epstein ``Leave the Gun; Take the Cannoli'': Food and Family in the Modern American Mafia Film 209(10) Marlisa Santos All-Consuming Passions: Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover 219(16) Raymond Armstrong Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's Delicatessen: An Ambiguous Memory, an Ambivalent Meal 235(16) Kyri Watson Claflin Futuristic Foodways: The Metaphorical Meaning of Food in Science Fiction Film 251(16) Laurel Forster Supper, Slapstick, and Social Class: Dinner as Machine in the Silent Films of Buster Keaton 267(14) Eric L. Reinholtz Banquet and the Beast: The Civilizing Role of Food in 1930s Horror Films 281(16) Blair Davis Engorged with Desire: The Films of Alfred Hitchcock and the Gendered Politics of Eating 297(14) David Greven What about the Popcorn? Food and the Film-Watching Experience 311(24) James Lyons Notes on Contributors 335(6) Index 341