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On Tuesday the 22nd of January, the Altos de Chavón School of Art and Design invites you to particpate in a complimentay lecture “Feasting your Eyes: Food in Film” presented by Fabio Parasecoli, Associate Professor and Coordinator of Food Studies at the New School in New York City at 6:30pm at the Regional Museum of Archeology in Altos de Chavón.
About: “Feasting your Eyes: Food in Film”
In the past few years food has moved to the center of all sorts of cultural, social, economic, and political conversations.The way we think about it is increasingly influenced by media, from TV cooking shows to social networks. By offering intense and pervasive images, movies – from blockbusters to cartoons, from food movies to documentaries – also play an important role in introduced, reinforcing, or contesting the ways in which we eat. What kind of models are proposed as mainstream? Who gets to sit at the silver screen table , and who stays excluded?
About: Fabio Parasecoli
Fabio Parasecoli is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Food Studies at the New School in New York City. His work explores the intersections among food, media, and politics. His current research focuses on food in movies, the history of Italian food, and on the socio-political aspects of geographical indications. He studied East Asian cultures and political science in Rome, Naples and Beijing, where he specialized in contemporary Chinese history.After covering Middle and Far Eastern political issues, he worked for many years as the US cor- respondent for Gambero Rosso, Italy’s authoritative food and wine magazine. He is program advisor at Gustolab, a center for food and culture in Rome, and collaborates with other higher education institutions such as the
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Barcelona (Spain),ALMA the Graduate School of the University of Bologna (Italy), and the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo (Italy). Among his recent publications: Food Culture in Italy (2004), the introduction to Culinary Cultures in Europe (The Council of Europe, 2005) and Bite me! Food in Popular Culture (2008). He is general editor with Peter Scholliers of a six-volume Cultural History of Food (2012).
“Feasting your Eyes: Food in Film”
When: Tuesday, January 22nd, 6:30 p.m.
Where: The Regional Museum of Archaeology in Altos de Chavón
RSVP: (809) 523-8554, spaces are limited so if you intend to attend please RSVP.