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Cynthia Baron is the author of Denzel Washington She is also co author of Reframing Screen Performance and co editor of More Than a Method Trends and Traditions in Contemporary Film Performance Wayne State University Press 2004. Epub appetites and anxieties review Cinema is a mosaic of memorable food scenes Detectives drink alone Gangsters talk with their mouths full Families around the world argue at dinner Food documentaries challenge popular consumption centered visions In Appetites and Anxieties Food Film and the Politics of Representation authors Cynthia Baron Diane Carson and Mark Bernard use a foodways paradigm drawn from the fields of folklore and cultural anthropology to illuminate film s cultural and material politics In looking at how films do and do not represent food procurement preparation presentation consumption clean up and disposal the authors bring the pleasures dangers and implications of consumption to center stage In nine chapters Baron Carson and Bernard consider food in fiction films and documentaries from both American and international cinema The first chapter examines film practice from the foodways perspective supplying a foundation for the collection of case studies that follow Chapter 2 takes a political economy approach as it examines the food industry and the film industry s policies that determine representations of food in film In chapter 3 the authors explore food and food interactions as a means for creating community in Bagdad Caf while in chapter 4 they take a close look at 301 302 in which food is used to mount social critique Chapter 5 focuses on cannibal films showing how the foodways paradigm unlocks the implications of films that dramatize one of society s greatest food taboos In chapter 6 the authors demonstrate ways that insights generated by the foodways lens can enrich genre and auteur studies Chapter 7 considers documentaries about food and water resources while chapter 8 examines food documentaries that slip through the cracks of film censorship by going into exhibition without an MPAA rating Finally in chapter 9 the authors study films from several national cinemas to explore the intersection of food gender and ethnicity Four appendices provide insights from a food stylist a selected filmography of fiction films and a filmography of documentaries that feature foodways components and a list of selected works in food and cultural studies Scholars of film studies and food studies will enjoy the thought provoking analysis of Appetites and Anxieties: EPub Appetites and anxieties meaning Published by Wayne State University Press Appetites and Anxieties Food Film and the Politics of Representation Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series