Celluloid Flavours. A Brief History of Food in Film
Celluloid Flavours. A Brief History of Food in Film

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the essay is to analyse selected images and the ways inwhich food functions in films. The author attempts to demonstrate how durableand intense are the connections between food and film. The text constitutes atype of a catalogue presenting examples of culinary meanings in film, which areas diverse as possible, although the provided examples certainly do not exhaustthe topic and their selection is to some extent subjective. The text is written fromthe perspective of film studies, with some important consequences thereof. Primarily,description decidedly dominates over analysis and interpretation, the possibledirections of which are only signalled. The author demonstrates that culinaryissues in films often carry a metaphorical and symbolic potential, thus becominga carrier of information regarding the cultural and socio-political context in whichthe film was made. As a film specialist, she is interested in the manner in whichculinary themes (i.e. food and various actions related to it) constitute an elementof a film’s narration by defining the presented world, providing the characterisationof the protagonists and their interrelationships, creating moods, evoking emotionsetc. Both types of filmic culinaries, i.e. those inside and outside the film itself, aredescribed and signalled in the context of concrete films (or scenes).

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