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Breaking Bread: The Filmic Foodscape of Postwar Italy

Breaking Bread: The Filmic Foodscape of Postwar Italy

Kiviat, Niki

Hardcover

Series: Toronto Italian Studies

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesItalian History

ISBN10: 1487564643
ISBN13: 9781487564643
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Nov 21 2025
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.15 Depth: 9.14
Language: English
Italy is celebrated around the world for its cuisine: simple, rustic, and tasteful. Likewise, Italy's cinema has continuously garnered great acclaim. Yet, the history behind their food - and the ways it has been treated in media - is decidedly more complicated.
In Breaking Bread, the worlds of anthropology, economics, gender studies, history, biochemistry, and cultural and literary studies collide on one plate. Food and film are Niki Kiviat's guiding pillars as she explores great transformations in Italy's consumption in the decades following the Second World War - years in which austerity morphed into radical gluttony. Historians argue that Italy's eating habits changed relatively little in this period, but as these films posit, the transition from hunger to excess - and from starvation to supermarkets - is not only apparent but enormous. Through its analyses of mise en scène, employment of influential stars, and theories and retrospectives by key directors, Breaking Bread reveals both the progression and devolution of Italy's filmic foodscape from 1954 to 1973.

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