Print version: Baron, Cynthia. Appetites and anxieties : food, film, and the politics of representation. Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2014] Contemporary approaches to film and media series ISBN 9780814334317
Introduction: the cultural and material politics of food -- Representations in film -- Foodways as an ideological approach -- Food and film industries: a filter for the food we see in films -- Foodways syntax: utopian films’ use of food to create community -- Foodways structured to convey disorder and dysfunction -- When humans are the food product: an ideological look at cannibal films -- Food as threat and promise: genre and auteur analysis -- Foodways in documentary films: consumer society in a wider frame -- The politics surrounding documentaries’ depiction of foodways -- Food as a window into personal and cultural politics.