Feasting Our Eyes: Food Films and Cultural Identity in the United States
ISBN: 9780231542975
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Food in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- United States -- History; Food -- Social aspects -- United States;

Feasting Our Eyes takes a second look at modern American food films to emphasize their conventional approaches to nation, gender, race, sexuality, and social status. Devoured visually and emotionally, these films are particularly effective defenders of the status quo.

Laura Lindenfeld is director of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and professor at the School of Journalism at Stony Brook University. Her work has appeared in Text & Performance Quarterly , Food & Foodways , and the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication .

Fabio Parasecoli is associate professor and director of food studies initiatives at the New School in New York City. Recent books include Bite me! Food in Popular Culture (2008); the six-volume Cultural History of Food , coedited with Peter Scholliers (2012); and Al Dente: A History of Food in Italy (2014).

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