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Role Food Plays in Film and Literature

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A publisher has approached you with an idea for an anthology about food in film and literature. At this point, the publisher has identified five themes that might be of interests to a larger audience. The publisher wonders which three of the five themes would have the greatest appeal for the target audience.
Identify the three themes you wish to see included in the anthology.
Then review the list of readings and select three works (literary texts/films) that should be included so that readers can explore each of the themes.
Explain the reasons these texts best help readers understand the role food plays in developing the theme in each of the works. To develop you recommendation reference individual characters, metaphors, symbolism of specific foods, conflicts, or any other literary element that is relevant in a given work to develop your argument. Use each work only once.
Themes:
Theme 1: Conflicts of the Body and Soul
Theme 2: Food as a Political Emblem and/or Statement
Theme 3: Culinary Artists and Dining Culture
Theme 4: Isolation and Alienation
Theme 5: Transformations

Special Requests: The publisher requests that no summaries of the individual works are included. Work only with paraphrases and direct quotations to help you explain the reasons you selected the works for each of the sections. 

●     The composition is well developed, unified, and has a clear three-part structure (introduction, supporting paragraphs, and conclusion)

●     Transitions are used effectively to guide readers from paragraph to paragraph as well as within paragraphs

●     Signal phrases and in-text citations are provided for all paraphrases and direct quotations. Additionally, the exact words being quoted are set off with quotation marks.

●     In-text citations are provided for all direct quotations and paraphrases. Please note, you need to provide works cited citations for the works.

●     Double-space the document throughout

●     Select an easy to read size 12 font

●     Adhere to standard one-inch margins

●     Save your work frequently to guard against technical mishaps

●     Carefully edit your work and proofread to guard against common typos and grammatical errors

●     Compose the recommendation in the third person. While an occasional first-person pronoun/referent is permissible, avoid using second person (you/yours) pronouns/referents.

Literature

Use this list of readings to help you review and to select works  

Excerpt from Plato’s Phaedra

Ovid’s Writings:

• There’s Always the Dinner Table

• Watch How You Eat and Drink

• Pythagoras’ argument for a vegetarian diet (recorded by Ovid)

Old Testament:

• Genesis, chapter 2: 1-19

• Exodus, chapter 16

• Leviticus, chapter 11

New Testament

• Luke, chapter 22: 1-20

• I Corinthians, chapter 10

Excerpt from Dark Ages of Men of God

Fairy Tales and article “All About Heaven: Apples and the Apple Tree”:

• Snow White

• Hansel and Gretel

• Little Red Cap

• From Into the Woods (“Hello Little Girl” and “I Know Things Now”)

Babette’s Feast (short story)

Memoirs:

• Excerpt from Mount Allegro

• Excerpt from The Promised Land

• Excerpt from A Walker in the City

• “Even Without a Home, We Always Had a Family Meal”

Last Night at the Lobster

Modest Proposal and contemporary satires

“A Piece of Steak”

“A Well-Lighted Place”

Excerpt from Invisible Man

Neruda’s Odes

“Perhaps the World Ends Here” ,  “Ripe Figs”, and “Ripe Plums Are Falling”

"Dinner Guest, Me" and "I, Too"

Feature Films

Tampopo

https://www.fmovies.top/movies/tampopo/

Babette’s Feast

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/babettesfeast

East Side Sushi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt-OBSb_EGo

Burnt

https://gototub.com/burnt-full-movie-online-free/

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Food in Film and Literature
Themes
1. Transformations
2. Culinary Artists and Dining Culture
3. Conflicts of the Body and soul
Introduction
This study is a review of the role food plays in developing themes in literary works and films. Three of the five themes will be included in the anthology which is seeking the greatest appeal to the target audience. The three themes include transformation, Culinary Artists, and Dining culture, and conflicts of the body and soul. The selected literary work includes; Grimm’s Fairy tale titled "Little Red Cap", the novel of Stewart O’Nan titled, “Last night at the Red Lobster" and the "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison.
1 Transformations
In Grimm’s fairy tale, the short story "Little Red Cap", the author uses food to show how it can greatly change our behaviors and transform us as people. The theme of transformation is displayed after the girl learns how her previous actions led to the incident of the wolf eating both her and her grandmother. She transforms into a focused girl who does not allow any distractions while out in the woods whenever her mother sends her to take food to the grandmother. The second theme, “Culinary Artists and Dining Culture” is displayed in this short story when the girl is asked by her mother to walk nicely and quietly when taking the food to her grandmother. Culinary artistry does not only mean cooking different cuisine and arranged nicely on the plates but also includes how the food is presented to the person who eats it. Food has been transformed into a necessity (“Dark Ages and the Men of God”). The author depicts a culinary art when the girl is asked to walk softly to present the food to the grandmother and say good morning without peeping in the corner of the house.
The third theme of conflicts of body and soul is also displayed in this Literature work. The grandmother is weak and needs food every day for the strength of the body.
... “take them to your grandmother, she is ill and weak,” (Grimm).
The paradox of the conflict between the body and the soul shows that the two cannot exist
without each other. The food scene in the story explains the importance of liberating the human
body from its lifelong physical suffering and torment in its organs. This can be seen from the hunger artist who considers lack of food as liberating (Kafka). The author shows a connection between the body and soul by creating a sense of enjoyment by eating food every day as a sign of full heart and soul.
2. Culinary Artists and Dining Culture
The novel “Last Night at the Lobster” by Stewart O’ nan, also excitingly portrays the three themes. The theme of transformation is depicted when the Manager of the restaurant Manny DeLon is issued a directive to close the restaurant at a time where the restaurant’s performance is steady (O’nan). The manager and the whole staff are affected by the unexpected directive and for this last day that the restaurant will open changes everything. The thought of not serving food to their customers significantly transforms all of them into dull, dark moods for the entire last day (“Book I Part VII:...
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