num_pages: 136
description: 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.
language: English
title: Food in Film: A Culinary Performance of Communication
titlecomplete: Food in Film: A Culinary Performance of Communication (Studies in American Popular History and Culture)
publisher: Routledge