Abstract
Several documentaries about celebrity chefs were released between 2010 and 2012, building on trends that have turned knowledge of and access to fine dining restaurants into a crucial arena for globalized elite's construction of social status and cultural capital. The analysis of three of these films - Three Stars, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, and Step up to Your Plate - indicates how media contribute to the formation of a global canon of practices, performances, and discourses that naturalize the accomplished, knowledgeable, and male chef trained in established and prestigious food traditions as the culinary ideal.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 315-339 |
Number of pages | 25 |
Journal | Semiotica |
Volume | 2016 |
Issue number | 211 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 1 2016 |
Keywords
- chefs
- documentary
- food
- gastronomy
- masculinity
- restaurants
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language
- Literature and Literary Theory