Foundational Sources
The following are some foundational resources on the role of food in film, film studies, and cinema:
- "Food in Film," in Routledge International Handbook of Food Studies
- "Food and Cinema: An Evolving Relationship," in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Popular Culture
- "Food Worlds, Film, and Gender," in Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics
- "Film and Television," in Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
- "Food in Popular Media," in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Food Issues
- "Food," in The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema
- "Eco-Documentaries and the Rhetoric of Food Production," in Film and Everyday Eco-Disasters
Book Spotlight
Feasting Our Eyes by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2016Big Night (1996), Ratatouille (2007), and Julie and Julia (2009) are more than films about food--they serve a political purpose.
Appetites and Anxieties by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2014Employs the foodways paradigm to analyze the ideological dimensions of food imagery and food behavior in fiction and documentary films.
Reel Food by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2004First published in 2005. This is the first book devoted to food as a vibrant and evocative element of film. It reads various films through their uses of food and beverage.
What's Eating You? by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2018Divided into four thematic sections, What's Eating You? explores the deeper significance of food on screen--the ways in which they reflect (or challenge) our deepest fears about consuming and being consumed.
Food on Film by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2014From early cinematic depictions of food as a symbol of ethnic and cultural identity to more complex contemporary portrayals, movies have demonstrated how our ideas about food are always changing.
Browse Films
Streaming
The following are available to you to stream immediately online through Kanopy, a film streaming service that can be accessed with your BU credentials.
DVDs
The following are available to you at the BU Libraries, which also has devices available for playing DVDs:
- Jiro Dreams of Sushi
- What's Cooking?
- Eat Drink Man Woman
- Like Water for Chocolate
- Chungking Express
- The Wedding Banquet
- Big Night
- Sideways
- Waitress
- La Grande Bouffe
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding
- Mostly Martha
- Mid-August Lunch
- Delicatessen
- The Fish Fall in Love
- The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie
- Soylent Green
- Kitchen Stories
- Ratatouille
- My Dinner with Andre
