CAHSS Faculty Books and Book Chapters
You Gotta Eat Somethin: Food, Violence, and Perversity in Scorsese’s Urban Films
Book Title
You Are What You Eat: Literary Probes into the Palate
Document Type
Book Chapter
ISBN
9781847184924
Publication Date
2008
Editors
Annette M. Magid
Keywords
food, food and society, urban films, violence
Description
You are What You Eat: Literary Probes into the Palate offers tantalizing essays immersed in the culture of food, expanded across genres, disciplines, and time. The entire collection of You Are What You Eat includes a diversity of approaches and foci from multicultural national and international scholars and has a broad spectrum of subjects including: feminist theory, domesticity, children, film, cultural history, patriarchal gender ideology, mothering ideology, queer theory, politics, and poetry. Essays include studies of food-related works by John Milton, Emily Dickinson, Fay Weldon, Kenneth Grahame, Roald Dahl, Shel Silverstein, J. K. Rowling, Mother Goose, John Updike, Maxine Hong Kingston, Alice Walker, Amy Tan, Louise Erdrich, Amanda Hesser, Julie Powell, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Martin Scorsese, Bob Giraldi, Clarice Lispector, José Antônio Garcia, Fran Ross, and Gish Hen. The topic addresses a range of interests appealing to diverse audiences, expanding from college students to food enthusiasts and scholars.
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
City
Newcastle, UK
First Page
137
Last Page
153
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Creative Writing | Film and Media Studies
NSUWorks Citation
Santos, M. (2008). You Gotta Eat Somethin: Food, Violence, and Perversity in Scorsese’s Urban Films. You Are What You Eat: Literary Probes into the Palate, 137-153. Retrieved from https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_facbooks/79