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Representing Italy Through Food by Peter Naccarato, Zachary Nowak, Elgin K. Eckert, Peter Naccarato is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"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 imagined by Italians and non-Italians alike. Representing Italy through Food is the first book to examine how these perceptions are constructed, sustained, promoted, and challenged. Recognizing the power of representations to construct reality, the book explores how Italian food and foodways are represented across the media - from literature to film and television, from cookbooks to social media, and from marketing campaigns to advertisements. Bringing together established scholars such as Massimo Montanari and Ken Albala with emerging scholars in the field, the thirteen chapters offer new perspectives on Italian food and culture. Featuring both local and global perspectives - which examine Italian food in the United States, Australia and Israel - the book reveals the power of representations across historical, geographic, socio-economic, and cultural boundaries and asks if there is anything t

Who reads Representing Italy Through Food?

Author

Peter Naccarato, Zachary Nowak, Elgin K. Eckert, Peter Naccarato

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474280433

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Agriculture, History, Sociology