Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 14:34:42 -0500
From: Christopher Elliot <celliot-AT-osf1.gmu.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: Gustatory Studies


Yes, and don't forget _Babettes Feast_.

Chris Elliot


At 02:21 PM 11/13/97 -0500, David Langston wrote:
>
>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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