Introduction: the cultural and material politics of food
Representations in film
Foodways as an ideological approach
Food and film industries: a filter for the food we see in films
Foodways syntax: utopian films' use of food to create community
Foodways structured to convey disorder and dysfunction
When humans are the food product: an ideological look at cannibal films
Food as threat and promise: genre and auteur analysis
Foodways in documentary films: consumer society in a wider frame
The politics surrounding documentaries' depiction of foodways
Food as a window into personal and cultural politics.