Food Films and Consumption

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Lindenfeld ◽  
Fabio Parasecoli
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Critical Point ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Ethnic Identities ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Good Taste ◽  
Global Food ◽  
Media Pressure

Focuses on restaurants as one of the key spaces in contemporary global food culture that have recently acquired media visibility in the practices imaginary of educated consumers, allowing them to convey their identities in terms of cultural capital, connoisseurship, and cosmopolitanism. Restaurants appear as places where chefs express their skills and creativity, in constant negotiations with their customers’ preferences, media pressure, and business priorities. Big Night (Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott, 1996) and other movies that focus on restaurants and chefs, like Dinner Rush (Giraldi, 2000), Waiting (McKittrick, 2005), Today’s Special (Kaplan, 2009), Hundred-Food Journey (Lasse Hallström, 2014), and Chef (Jon Favreau, 2014), assume a critical point of view vis-à-vis mainstream U.S. food culture, revealing the tensions, contradictions, and inequalities in food business. However, their distribution and self-representation through marketing reiterate the stereotypes the films appear to target. By focusing on restaurants and the chefs that command them, while playing with the gender, class, and ethnic identities of the protagonists, as well as their social status, food films help to construct notions of good taste and citizenship while defining educated consumers by appealing to their sense of cultural capital.

scholarly journals Savoring Authenticity: Food Consumption and Nostalgia in Japan

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Bulian
Keyword(s):  
Food Consumption ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Ethnic Identities ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
Cultural Anxieties ◽  
Media Narratives

The Japanese culinary tradition and contemporary food-related values are often characterised by an emotional and evocative tone that can be traced back to nostalgia, a global multidimensional phenomenon that blends cultural anxieties, sentimental values and sense of place. The desire to remember home through food consumption, as a valuable way of approaching the past, enables the construction or redefinition of ethnic identities, cultural boundaries and a sense of uniqueness. This paper offers some introductory reflections on present-day practices and affective aspects related to Japanese food culture from the point of view of their symbolic meaning in media narratives.

scholarly journals Shakespeare for Revolution: From Canon to Activism in V for Vendetta and Sons of Anarchy

2020 ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Maria Consuelo Forés Rossell
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Activism ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
Political Weapon ◽  
V For Vendetta

Shakespeare’s works have long been a place of cultural and political struggles, and continues to be so. Twenty-first century non-canonical fiction is appropriating Shakespeare for activist purposes. The present article will analyze this phenomenon, applying the concept of cultural capital, the theories of cultural materialism, intertextuality, and appropriation in relation to popular culture, in order to study how Shakespeare’s plays are being appropriated from more radically progressive positions, and resituated in alternative contexts. Among the plethora of Shakespearean adaptations of the last decades, non-canonical appropriations in particular offer brand new interpretations of previously assumed ideas about Shakespeare’s works, popularizing the playwright in unprecedented ambits and culturally diverse social spaces, while giving voice to the marginalized. Thus, through entertainment, non-canonical fiction products such as V for Vendetta and Sons of Anarchy recycle the Shakespearean legacy from a critical point of view, while using it as a political weapon for cultural activism, helping to make people aware of social inequalities and to inspire them to adopt a critical stance towards them, as free and equal citizens.

An Unfulfilled Promise

Tempo ◽  
1954 ◽  
pp. 19-25
Author(s):  
John S. Weissmann
Keyword(s):  
Critical Point ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Bela Bartok ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Keen Interest ◽  
American University ◽  
University Professor ◽  
Material Information ◽  
Research Grant

The news that Halsey Stevens, an American University professor, was preparing a book on Bartók, aroused keen interest among sympathisers with the Hungarian composer, and publication-date was impatiently awaited. The author received very generous assistance from every quarter: a research grant from his university, and direct and indirect material information from a large number of people most of whose help is duly acknowledged in the preface. Why was it, then, that the book did not come up to expectations? The answer lies, partly, in Prof. Stevens's self-imposed limitations. The title says: “The Life and Music of Béla Bartók”, and Prof. Stevens seems to be careful to confine himself, almost literally, to the description of the two points his title indicates. His aims are more clearly defined in the foreword, where he says: “This book is concerned primarily with Bartók's music, approached from both the analytical and the critical point of view” (though the latter point of view is rather tentatively approached), and in a passage later on in the book: “… it has nowhere been the intention in this book to examine Bartók's work from the standpoint of its motivations, physical, psychological, or otherwise …” (p.250). I submit that this approach, though conducive of valuable information, is essentially a wrong one to adopt.

scholarly journals Die openbaring van God – ’n retories-kritiese interpretasie van Romeine 1:18-32

2003 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Cornelius
Keyword(s):  
Critical Point ◽  
Specific Problem ◽  
Rhetorical Criticism ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Communicative Function ◽  
Doctoral Thesis ◽  
General Revelation ◽  
God's People ◽  
Critical Interpretation ◽  
God's Work

The revelation of God – a rhetorical-critical interpretation of Romans 1:18-32 M.A. Kruger’s 1983 doctoral thesis caused serious discussion in GKSA circles with regard to the differentiation between “general revelation” and “specific revelation”. Romans 1:18-32 seems to be a central pericope in the understanding of the revelation of God. A project of the Faculty of Theology, PU for CHE, focusing on this specific problem, gave birth to this article as a component of the interpretation of this pericope. The issue addressed in this article is how this pericope can be interpreted from a rhetorical-critical point of view. In my own interdisciplinary and interactional approach to rhetorical criticism, the purpose is to interpret the communicative function(s) of this pericope. It turns out that the letter to the Romans was addressed to those in Rome in order to convince them that the reason for their acceptance as God’s people lies in God’s work only and not in their imitation of the Jews. Romans 1:18-32 seems to be part of the opening of the letter body intended to be a warning for all people, including an example of what may happen if this warning is not taken seriously. The logic of the argument indicates that God’s wrath will come upon those who do not accept His revelation in creation.

scholarly journals The Myths Refugees Live By: Memory and history in the making of Bengali refugee identity

2013 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
UDITI SEN
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Partition Of India ◽  
Refugee Experience

AbstractWithin the popular memory of the partition of India, the division of Bengal continues to evoke themes of political rupture, social tragedy, and nostalgia. The refugees or, more broadly speaking, Hindu migrants from East Bengal, are often the central agents of such narratives. This paper explores how the scholarship on East Bengali refugees portrays them either as hapless and passive victims of the regime of rehabilitation, which was designed to integrate refugees into the socio-economic fabric of India, or eulogizes them as heroic protagonists who successfully battled overwhelming adversity to wrest resettlement from a reluctant state. This split image of the Bengali refugee as both victim and victor obscures the complex nature of refugee agency. Through a case-study of the foundation and development of Bijoygarh colony, an illegal settlement of refugee-squatters on the outskirts of Calcutta, this paper will argue that refugee agency in post-partition West Bengal was inevitably moulded by social status and cultural capital. However, the collective memory of the establishment of squatters’ colonies systematically ignores the role of caste and class affiliations in fracturing the refugee experience. Instead, it retells the refugees’ quest for rehabilitation along the mythic trope of heroic and masculine struggle. This paper interrogates refugee reminiscences to illuminate their erasures and silences, delineating the mythic structure common to both popular and academic refugee histories and exploring its significance in constructing a specific cultural identity for Bengali refugees.

Mercury fractionation in tropical soils: A critical point of view

Chemosphere ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 257 ◽  
pp. 127114
Author(s):  
Isabela C.F. Vasques ◽  
Fernando B. Egreja Filho ◽  
Everton G. Morais ◽  
Francielle R.D. Lima ◽  
Jakeline R. Oliveira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Point ◽  
Tropical Soils ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Mercury Fractionation
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