Culinary Cinema: Appetite, Narrative, and Community in Contemporary Film

by Deborah R. Geis

In this book, Deborah Geis offers a new approach to the evolving genre of culinary films that center on the acts of eating and cooking through close analyses of ten different films. These films range from the classics, like Big Night (1996) and Babette's Feast (1987) to later box-office hits, like Chef (2014) and to films that deserve a second look, like East Side Sushi (2014), Burnt (2015), and Mid-August...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1666958638
• ISBN13: 9781666958638
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 252 Pages