Food represents the culture and identity of a society, region or country and its depiction within an audio-visual work allows creating a connection with the audiences of those regions, as well as those who love to try these cuisines. Today,…
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A Smorgasbord of Substitutions: Food in/as Stop-Motion Animation
by Andrea Comiskey • May 19, 2023 • 1 Comment
One could enjoy quite a feast from the buffet of stop-motion history. You can find eggs in Charley Bowers’s Believe It or Don’t (1935), an array of fresh fruits and vegetables in Disney’s A Symposium on Popular Songs (1962), beans…
A Moving Feast: “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving”
by Peter Piatkowski • May 18, 2023 • 2 Comments
Until recently, the narrative of the American Thanksgiving meal has been about togetherness. Inspired perhaps by the Norman Rockwell painting Freedom from Want (1943), which depicts the archetypical American family sharing the archetypical American Thanksgiving feast. The traditional Thanksgiving meal is classic…