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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