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      • FoodFood has often served as a focalpoint of culture and community in film. Families warmly meet around the dinner table while lovers indulge in opulent feasts. Home cooked meals can evoke comfort, tradition, and sociality but its very absence can point to its commodification and politicization. The richness of food and drink on film asks us to think more closely about its primacy. It asks us to question how lives are shaped by its ubiquity, otherwise taken for granted.
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      • Into the Digital AgeAs we go Into the Digital Age this edition, we will be focusing on the coexistence of humanity and digital technology. Is this relationship conflict oriented, harmonious, or somewhere between the two? This coexistence can be analyzed through historical evolution, science fiction, artificial intelligence (AI), the impacts of neoliberalism, utopias, dystopias, current realities, and imagined futures.
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Category: Food

Food has often served as a focalpoint of culture and community in film. Families warmly meet around the dinner table while lovers indulge in opulent feasts. Home cooked meals can evoke comfort, tradition, and sociality but its very absence can point to its commodification and politicization. The richness of food and drink on film asks us to think more closely about its primacy. It asks us to question how lives are shaped by its ubiquity, otherwise taken for granted.

Food

Food Anxieties and Futures in The Divine Fist of the North Star

1 Jul 20221 Jul 2022
The Divine Fist of the North Star (1983-88) is a kick-ass manga series later adapted into an anime (1984-88) that follows a young man named Kenshiro who carries the legacy…
Food

Staunch Characters and Not-So-Fine Dining: Food and the Direct Cinema of Grey Gardens

1 Jul 20225 Jan 2023
You can't have your cake and eat it too, in life. Oh, yes, I did. I did, I had my cake, loved it, masticated it, chewed it and had everything…
Food

For the Love of Soup: the Quest for Perfect Ramen in Tampopo

1 Jul 2022
I love soup. To my friends and family, this obsession can seem a little unusual. After all, much of western cuisine tends to place soup in a supporting role. In…
Food

Fresh Meat

1 Jul 2022
Food is an essential part of everyone's life, and its primary purpose is to provide the nutrition that is necessary for the existence of any human being. However, throughout history,…

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