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Food, Film and Culture

A Genre Study

By: James R. Keller

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Culinary imagery, much like sexual and violent imagery, is a key cinematic device used to elicit a sensory response from an audience. In many films, culinary imagery is central enough to constitute a new subgenre, defined by films in which food production, preparation, service, and consumption play a major part in the development of character, structure, or theme. This book defines the food film genre and analyzes the relationship between cinematic food imagery and various cultural constructs, including politics, family, identity, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, and religion. Chapters examine these themes in several well-known food films, such as The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Chocolat, Babette's Feast, and Eat Drink Man Woman, and lesser-known productions, including Felicia's Journey, Kitchen Stories, Magic Kitchen, and Chinese Feast. The work includes a filmography of movies within the food genre. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

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McFarland

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147660908X

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9781476609089

Moving Pictures, Still Lives

Film, New Media, and the Late Twentieth Century

By: James Tweedie

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Moving Pictures, Still Lives

Film, New Media, and the Late Twentieth Century

By: James Tweedie

Moving Pictures, Still Lives revisits the cinematic and intellectual atmosphere of the late twentieth century. Against the backdrop of the historical fever of the 1980s and 1990s-the rise of the heritage industry, a global museum-building boom, and a cinematic fascination with costume dramas and literary adaptations-it explores the work of artists and philosophers who complicated the usual association between tradition and the past or modernity and the future. Author James Tweedie retraces the "archaeomodern turn" in films and theory that framed the past as a repository of abandoned but potentially transformative experiments. He examines late twentieth-century filmmakers who were inspired by old media, especially painting, and often viewed those art forms as portals to the modern past. In detailed discussions of Alain Cavalier, Terence Davies, Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, Derek Jarman, Agnès Varda, and other key directors, the book concentrates on films that fill the screen with a succession of tableaux vivants, still lifes, illuminated manuscripts, and landscapes. It also considers three key figures-Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, and Serge Daney-who grappled with the late twentieth century's characteristic concerns, including history, memory, and belatedness. It reframes their theoretical work on film as a mourning play for past revolutions and a means of reviving the possibilities of the modern age (and its paradigmatic medium, cinema) during periods of political and cultural retrenchment. Looking at cinema and the century in the rear-view mirror, the book highlights the unrealized potential visible in the history of film, as well as the cinematic phantoms that remain in the digital age.

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305

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Oxford University Press

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0190873892

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9780190873899

Fairbairn’s Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland

By: James Fairbairn

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Fairbairn’s Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland

By: James Fairbairn

In two volumes. Volume I: 601 pages including a 522 page index of family names, in alphabetical order, describing the crest of every name listed and where to find an illustration in the volume of plates; a glossary of heraldic terms and other words; and nearly seventy pages of family mottoes with translations of those in Latin, French or other foreign languages. Volume II: contains 130 plates, each depicting 15 family crests in b&w and a further 18 plates illustrating regalia, insignia, crowns, flags, monograms, arms of principal cities etc. also in b&w. There is a key to all the plates which, in the case of the crests, shows which families have which crest.

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798

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Andrews UK Limited

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1781502455

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9781781502457

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The Ultimate Guide to the Best 1,000 Modern Movies on DVD and Video

By: James Berardinelli

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The Ultimate Guide to the Best 1,000 Modern Movies on DVD and Video

By: James Berardinelli

Thoroughly revised and updated for 2005! Includes a new chapter on the best special edition DVDs and a new chapter on finding hidden easter egg features.

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Justin, Charles & Co.

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1932112405

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9781932112405

Full Marks

By: Neal James

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By: Neal James

Dennis Marks thought he had seen it all. That was before Solomon Goldblum crossed his path - after that, things were never the same again. The trauma which the old Jew had inflicted upon him had brought about a new psychological collapse. The DCI had so far been able to conceal his mental fragility; now all that effort was about to be challenged by one of the most daunting figures at Scotland yard.

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Pneuma Springs Publishing

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1782282637

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9781782282631

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Food, Film and Culture

Food, Film and Culture

Moving Pictures, Still Lives

Moving Pictures, Still Lives

Fairbairn’s Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland

Fairbairn’s Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland

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