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Sensuality and Magic in Tita’s Kitchen Sensuality and Magic in Tita’s Kitchen
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Simply Ridiculous? Fairy-Tale Romance and Food in Simply Irresistible Simply Ridiculous? Fairy-Tale Romance and Food in Simply Irresistible
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Woman on Top and the Red-Hot Latina Body Woman on Top and the Red-Hot Latina Body
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Do Women Really Need Chocolat? Do Women Really Need Chocolat?
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Women, Magic, and Food: A Bitter Pill to Swallow Women, Magic, and Food: A Bitter Pill to Swallow
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3 Magical Food, Luscious Bodies
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Published:November 2016
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Abstract
The films explored in this chapter configure the magic qualities of food as an extension of the bodies of the women—often exotic—who prepare food. In fact, these movies often embrace an approach that takes inspiration from the literary style of magic realism, where women metaphorically become food, often thrown away or in need of management because of their unruly nature. This chapter, which includes an analysis of Simply Irresistible (Tarlov, 1999), Woman on Top (Torres, 2000), The Mistress of Spices (Mayeda Berges, 2004) and Chocolat (Hallström, 2000), illustrates how food becomes fetishized, gendered, and racialized in Hollywood films much in the same way that women’s bodies have been treated by mainstream U.S. media. Food is often feminized in mainstream food media, and the configuration of food as magical via the extension of the female – and often non-white - bodies that prepare food into the food itself, underlines the pornographic potential of food imagery.
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