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!)