Bøker av Jane Ferry

Presents a range of qualitative approaches that enable students to decipher information conveyed through the channels of mass communication - photography, film, radio, television, and interactive media. This book helps students develop critical thinking skills with regard to what media to use and how to interpret the information that they receive.

This work examines food scenes in selected films to reveal food's power to direct and impose values and beliefs, to understand how dining venues may become sites of social contests, and to reveal how food communicates values and beliefs to individuals, to micro communities, and to American society.