REEL FOOD BY ANNA L. BOWER

Reel Food by Anna L. Bower



Reel Food by Anna L. Bower

Chapter 11: Anorexia Envisioned: Mike Leigh's Life is Sweet, Chul-Soo Park's 301/302, and Todd Haynes's Superstar

Summary

Anne Bower's Reel Food is the first book dedicated to food as a vibrant and evocative component of film. Anorexia has become rather passé-at smallest according to my eighteen-, nineteen-, and twenty-year-old students at a women's college in the southeastern United States. Unlike the college girls of the 1980s and early 1990s who held up the slim, emaciated body as a perfect, the women of the new millennium look ...