English 84, Section 1
Food and Film (2 units, P/NP)
Professor Julia Bader
Monday 2:00-5:00, 300 Wheeler Hall, CCN: 28118

We will examine the representation of food and meals in the setting and narrative structure of films in contemporary cinema in various genres from comedy to horror, looking at Woody Allen, Bunuel, Ang Lee, Hitchcock and others. Connections to ethnic identity, eroticism, aggression and communal regulation will be explored with a range of critical approaches from close analysis to psychoanalytic and reception studies. This seminar may be used to satisfy the Arts and Literature breadth requirement in Letters and Science.

Professor Julia Bader teaches in the English Department and specializes in the modern period, both British and American, with an emphasis on fiction, film, and feminism.