Fashioning Appetite: Restaurants and the Making of Modern Identity (International Library of Cultural Studies) - Brossura

Joanne Finkelstein

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ISBN 10: 1780762631 ISBN 13: 9781780762630

Casa editrice: I.B.Tauris, 2013

Riassunto

It can no longer be said that we are just what we eat. In the contested sphere of gastronomy divided between the golden arches of McDonalds and the prized stars of Michelin where personal identity is expressed through a frenetic quest for socially-approved tastes and distinctions, where, when, how and with whom we eat has become just as fundamental in defining who we are. In this follow-on to her classic 1989 work Dining Out: A Sociology of Modern Manners, Joanne Finkelstein takes a fragment of social life, dining out in restaurants, and uses it to examine the nature and meaning of manners and social relations in the modern world. In Fashioning Appetite, the restaurant becomes a liminal space in which public and privte boundaries are constantly renegotiated, in which our personal celebrations and seductions are conducted within full view of the next table, and where eating alone has become a perilous social minefield. When food is fetishized ad identity becomes a capitalist commodity, the experience of the restaurant transforms appetite into both a pleasure and a torment where being satisfied with one's meal is also about being satisfied with oneself. Applying new research in emotional capitalism to popular culture's pervasive images of conspicuous consumption, Finkelstein builds a cultural portrait in which every forkful is weighted with meaning.

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Recensione

An original, inventive, deliciously clever, necessary book that invites over-indulgence in all the most delightful ways. Finkelstein has always had a sharp eye for seeing deep into our cultures of conviviality, consumption and chic. Here she exposes us all once again, in ways that satisfy the mind.

Glenda Sluga, Professor of International History, University of Sydney

I shall never think of restaurants in the same way again- but will enjoy eating out even more. --Margaret Mountford, formerly of The Appentice, BBC TV.

L'autore

Joanne Finkelstein is Professor of Sociology at USQ, Australia and has previously held positions at the University of Sydney and Monash University in Australia and the University of Greenwich, UK.

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• Editore: I.B.Tauris
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1780762631
• ISBN 13: 9781780762630
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208