Representing Italy through food
"Italy has long been romanticized as an idyllic place. Italian food and foodways play an important part in this romanticization - from bountiful bowls of fresh pasta to bottles of Tuscan wine. While such images oversimplify the complex reality of modern Italy, they are central to how Italy is i...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, UK ; New York, NY, USA :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2017.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44676980*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- FC; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Editors' Introduction: Presenting food, representing Italy Peter Naccarato, Zachary Nowak, and Elgin K. Eckert; PART ONE (Re)presenting iconic Italy; 1 And at last, the farmers win Massimo Montanari; 2 Authenticity all'italiana: Food discourses, diasporas, and the limits of cuisine in contemporary Italy Aliza S. Wong; 3 The Slow Food Movement and Facebook: The paradox of advocating slow living through fast technology Ginevra Adamoli.
- PART TWO Representing Italy in literature and film4 Clara Sereni's Casalinghitudine: Recipes for political history Ernesto Livorni; 5 Inspector Montalbano a tavola: Food in Andrea Camilleri's police fiction Elgin K. Eckert; 6 There's a mobster in the kitchen: Cooking, eating, and complications of gender in The Godfather and Goodfellas Peter Naccarato; 7 In cibo veritas: Food preparation and consumption in Özpetek's "queer" films Elgin K. Eckert and Zachary Nowak; PART THREE Marketing, packaging, and advertising Italy.
- 8 Producing consumers: Gendering Italy through food advertisements Diana Garvin9 "A kitchen with a view": The modernization of gender roles in Italy through Barilla's 1950s and 1960s advertising campaigns Antonella Valoroso; 10 Semiotics of sauce: Representing Italian/American identity through pasta sauces Maryann Tebben; PART FOUR Global representations of Italy; 11 Italianità in America: The cultural politics of representing "authentic" Italian Cuisine in the U.S. Ken Albala.
- 12 Leggo's not-so-autentico: Invention and representation in twentieth century Italo-Australian foodways Rachel A. Ankeny and Tania Cammarano13 Italian food in Israel: Representing an Imagined Mediterranean Nir Avieli; 14 Afterword: Italy represented Peter Naccarato, Zachary Nowak, and Elgin K. Eckert; Index.
