LIT-118 Food in Literature and Film

Always a necessity and sometimes a luxury, food connects all people to the planet and to one another. This course will explore how authors and filmmakers use food and cooking in their works as a means of exposing complex social relationships, histories, and identities. The list of authors we may read includes Laura Esquivel, Aimee Bender, Isak Dinesen, Franz Kafka, MFK Fisher, Ruth Reichl, and many poets. We will also look at films such as Big Night; Eat, Drink, Man, Woman; and Ratatouille.

Maximum Enrollment

Proseminar (16)

(Proseminar, First Year Course, Writing Intensive.)

Credits

1

Prerequisite

Open only to first-year students who have not taken a 100-level Literature course.

Notes

(Intermedia)