Week 13 – April 28 & 30

Tuesday: Group Presentation 5: Food, Film and Image of Japan (3 students) Watch Film: Itami Juzo Tampopo (1985) (118 minutes) and Read: Michael Ashkenazi, “Food, Play, Business, and the Image of Japan in Itami Juzo’s Tampopo”, in: Reel Food, p. 27-40

Group Presentation 6: Food, Film and Sex (3 students) Watch Film: Zhang Yimou Raise the Red Lantern (1991) (128 minutes) and Read: Ellern J. Fried “Food, Sex, and Power at the Dining Room Table in Zhang Yimou’s Raise the Red Lantern”, in: Reel Food, p. 129-146

All: Watch Film: Bob Giraldi Dinner Rush (2000) (99 minutes)

Thursday: Food, Family and Eating Italian
Read: James Keller “Filming and Eating Italian: Big Night and Dinner Rush” In Food, Film and Culture, p. 124-140

Quiz about the film and Discussion of readings and film

Blog Entry 11: Compare Big Night from last week with Dinner Rush. How are they similar and different? Which one did you like more and why? Blog is due by Sunday, May 3.

Week 12 – April 21 & 23

Monday: Evening Film for All: Campbell Scott & Stanley Tucci, Big Night (1996) (109 minutes)

Tuesday: Food, Family and First-Generation Immigrants
Read: Margaret Coyle, “Il Timpano – “To Eat Good Food Is to Be Close to God”: The Italian-American Reconciliation of Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott’s Big Night”, in Reel Food, pp. 41-59
Discussion of readings and film

Thursday: No Class: Submit your Term paper.

Blog Entry 10: Describe the relationship between the two brothers and their situation as first-generation Italian immigrants. Or What is the meaning of the last scene in the film when all three main characters are eating breakfast? Blog is due by Sunday, April 26.

Week 11 – April 14 & 16

Tuesday:  Group Presentation 1: Food and Violence. Watch Film: Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994) (178 minutes) and Read: Rebecca Epstein, “Appetite for Destruction: Gangster Food and Genre Convention in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction”, in: Reel Food, p. 195-208
Group Presentation 2: Food, Family and the American Mafia. Watch Film: Martin Scorsese Good Fellas (1990) (148 minutes) and Read: Marlisa Santos, “Leave the Gun: Take the Cannoli: Food and Family in the Modern American Mafia Film”, in: Reel Food, pp. 209-218

Thursday: Group Presentation 3: Ecofeminism and Agriculture. Watch Film: Marleen Gorris Antonia’s Line (1995) (104 minutes) and Read: James Keller, “Dreaming of the Pure Vegetable Kingdom: Ecofeminism and Agriculture in A Thousand Acres and Antonia’s Line”, in Food, Film and Culture, pp. 94-108
Group Presentation 4: Watch Film: Peter Greenaway The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover Read: READ: Raymond Armstrong, “All Consuming Passion: Peter Greenaway The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover”, in: Reel Food, p. 219-234 OR James Keller, “The Allegory of Intemperance: Spencer Greenaway’s The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover”, in Food, Film and Culture, pp. 13-23

First Draft of Term Paper is due by Thursday, April 23, 11:20 a.m. (No Exceptions!)

Week 10 – April 7 & 9

Tuesday: Food, Ethnicity, Culture and Film – Part 2
Watch Film: Tim Reid “Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored” (1995) (115 minutes)
Watch Film: George Tillman Jr. Soul Food (1997) (115 minutes)
Thursday: Read: Robin Balthrope, “Food as Representative of Ethnicity and Culture in George Tillman Jr.’s Soul Food, María Ripoll’s Tortilla Soup, and Tim Reid’s Once Upon a Time When we Were Colored”, in Reel Food, pp. 101-116
Discussion of the reading and the two films

Blog Entry 9: Explain the way the film shows how food transmits culture and constitutes ethnic identity. Make sure to use the article by Robin Balthrope. Blog is due by Sunday, April 12.