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- Title
For the Love of Food: A Gastrocritical Reading of Alphonse Puthren's Premam.
- Authors
M. N., Shobitha
- Abstract
Through the lens of culture studies, everyday practices that were hitherto overlooked have gained heightened interest of late. Food Studies is one such burgeoning field of inquiry, building upon the complex relationship between human, the social being and his/her gustatory practices and foodscapes. It transcends the basic notion of food as sustenance and interprets its representations as cultural codes, gateways to traditions and as markers of identity, fixing class, gender, ethnic and familial classifications. This paper focuses on one particular cultural product, the famous Malayalam film Premam and studies the employment of food tropes and notions of consumption in it to identify food as a semiotic device, contributing to the film's meaning-making practices. It interprets gastrocritically (Ronald W. Tobin), how such an employment furthers the genre adhering trope of the film, which is a romantic comedy. It locates food as a metaphorical vehicle that enables the formation and evolution of notions of 'love' as appropriated in the film. Borrowing broadly from various disciplines like psychoanalysis and gender studies, the paper argues that food aids in the construction of underlying ideologies like masculinity, gaze, and desire as embedded within the film's fabric.
- Subjects
FILM studies; ROMANTIC comedy films; GENDER studies; PSYCHOANALYSIS; MASCULINITY; READING; COMEDY films; COMEDY
- Publication
Agathos: An International Review of the Humanities & Social Sciences, 2023, Vol 14, Issue 2, p133
- ISSN
2069-1025
- Publication type
Article