A while back, Gloria Monti requested:


>         Starting with *Eat Drink Man Woman* (1994), Ang Lee, I am looking
> for critical work on the depiction of food onscreen and the role of food in
> family life (food and love, fathers and daughters, etc.).  Also, I haven't
> been able to find anything beyond reviews of the film.
>         Any leads?

Replies here so far have given lists of other films that feature food,
but Gloria seems to be asking for *critical* work.  Here's some that
might (or might not) be of some use:

"Breaking the Soy Sauce Jar: Diaspora and Displacement in the Films of
Ang Lee" by Wei Ming Darious, Eileen Fung

in
TITLE:
                  Transnational Chinese cinemas : identity, nationhood, gender
     PLACE:
                  Honolulu, HI :
     PUBLISHER:
                  University of Hawaii Press,
     YEAR:
                  1997




"A woman's place is in the kitchen of knowledge : premodern and
postmodern representations of food (for thought) in Japanese film" by
Marie Thorsten Morimoto

in
Title:
               Gender and culture in literature and film East and West : issues
 of perception
               and interpretation : selected conference papers / edited by
 Nitaya Masavisut,
               George Simson, Larry E. Smith.
     Publisher:
               Honolulu, Hawaii : College of Languages, Linguistics, and
 Literature, University
               of Hawaii : East-West Center : Distributed by University of
 Hawaii Press,
               c1994.
   Description:
               xxxv, 296 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
   Title-Series:
               Literary studies--East and West ; v. 9


This is less directly relevant, but you may find it of use:

Title:
               Handbook of Chinese popular culture / edited by Wu Dingbo and
 Patrick D.
               Murphy.
     Publisher:
               Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.
   Description:
               ix, 409 p. ; 25 cm.


Some possible articles may include:

           Title:  CULINARY ORDER AND DISORDER - THE TABLE AND FOOD IN
 LITERATURE AND FILM
               Author:  GALLINGANI D
            Doc. Type:  ARTICLE
             Language:  ITALIAN
                 Year:  1992
          No. of Ref.:  0017
              Journal:  RISORGIMENTO, V44, N2, 1992.  P437-445



           Title:  A CONSUMING PASSION - FOOD AND FILM-NOIR
               Author:  TELOTTE JP
              Address:  (REPRINT) GEORGIA INST TECHNOL,FILM, ATLANTA, GA
                        30332
            Doc. Type:  ARTICLE
             Language:  ENGLISH
                 Year:  1985
              Country:  USA
          No. of Ref.:  0011
              Journal:  GEORGIA REVIEW, V39, N2, 1985


       Title:  FOOD AND DEFILEMENT IN GREENAWAY,PETER THE 'COOK, THE THIEF, HIS
 WIFE AND HER LOVER' (A FILM OF REVENGE)
               Author:  RODGERS M
            Doc. Type:  ARTICLE
             Language:  ENGLISH
                 Year:  1991
          No. of Ref.:  0004
              Journal:  DESCANT, V22, N1, 1991.  P215


Don Larsson

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Donald Larsson
Minnesota State U, Mankato
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