Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 14:21:10 -0500 (EST)
From: David Langston <dlangsto-AT-mcla.mass.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: Gustatory Studies



If you are looking for films which feature food or its
preparation as thematically central, I can think of a few
off the top of my head: 
  Eating Raoul
  Viridiana
  The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and her Lover
  Modern Times
  The Salamander
  Like Water for Chocolate
  The Gold Rush
  
If, however, you include films where talking about food or using
conversation while eating, then the list becomes unmanagably large.  Would
you, for instance, include the concluding scene in _Pulp Fiction_? ...or
the discussion of fast food in France earlier in the same film?...or the
parodic reversal of a dinner party in _Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie_? 
...or the dinner table epic, _My Dinner with Andre_?...or the breakfast 
table montage in _Citizen Kane_?

It is an interesting topic.  I'm wondering if one could develop a
taxonomy of "food situations"....or if there is a phenomenological
question lurking in this subject.
                              David Langston
                              Mass. College of Liberal Arts
                              dlangsto-AT-mcla.mass.edu


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