Reel Food Essays on Food and Film [Paperback]

1. Watching Food: The Production of Food, Film, and Values, Anne L. Bower       

Section I: Cooking Up Cultural Values   

2. Feel Good Reel Food: A Taste of Cultural Kedgeree in Gurinder Chadha's What's Cooking?, Debnita Chakravarti      

3. Food, Play, Business and the Image of Japan in Juzo's Tampopo, Michael Ashkenazi       

4. Il Timpano- To Eat Good Food is to be Close to God : The Italian-American
Reconciliation of Stanley Tucci's Big Night, Margaret Coyle       

5.Cooking Mexicanness: Shaping National Identity in Alfonso Arau's Como agua
para chocolate,Miriam Lopez-Rodriguez     

6. Chickens, Jams, and Kitchens: Modern Food and Malay Films of the 1950s and 1960s, Timothy P. Barnard     

7. I'll Have Whatever She's Having : Jews, Food, and Film, Nathan Abrams       

8. Food as Representative of Ethnicity and Culture in George Tillman Jr.'s Soul Food, Maria Ripolli's Tortilla Soup, and Tim Reid's Once Upon A Time When We Were Colored, Robin Balthrope 

Section II: Focus on Women--the Body, the Spirit    

9. Gendering the Feast: Women,lS#