Cooking with Scorsese Vol. 4 extends the series' precise, screenshot-driven study of food as cinematic language, turning to the distinct visions of Yorgos Lanthimos, Charlie Chaplin, and Park Chan-wook to examine how a meal on screen can carry grief, power, or desire.
About This Book
This is not a cookbook. Cooking with Scorsese Vol. 4 belongs to a series that reads food in film as a visual and symbolic grammar — the quiet domestic ritual, the transgressive feast, the shared table weighted with unspoken tension. Through a curated sequence of film screenshots, this volume draws on the work of directors as tonally different as Charlie Chaplin and Park Chan-wook to demonstrate the breadth of what cinematic cuisine can communicate. For anyone who thinks seriously about mise-en-scène, the series offers a methodology: slow down, look at what is on the table, and ask what it means. Essential for film scholars, visual culture researchers, and anyone attuned to the semiotics of the moving image.
Key Features
- 152 pages of curated film screenshots examining food as visual and narrative symbol
- Features the work of directors Yorgos Lanthimos, Charlie Chaplin, and Park Chan-wook
- Published by Hato Press
What You'll Discover
- How directors from radically different traditions — Chaplin's physical comedy, Lanthimos's cold surrealism, Park's visceral intensity — each deploy food as a distinct cinematic tool
- The emotional and symbolic registers food occupies on screen: ritual, indulgence, intimacy, transgression, and shared humanity
- How a still image extracted from a film can isolate and amplify the narrative work that food quietly performs within a scene
- The cumulative argument, built across the series, that cinema has developed its own coherent language of cuisine — one worth reading on its own terms
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 152
- Dimensions: 110 x 210mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781910239568
- Publisher: Hato Press
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Film scholars, visual culture researchers, cinephiles, and readers interested in the semiotics of food, cinema, and the intersection of the two.