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Breaking Bread

The Filmic Foodscape of Postwar Italy

Niki Kiviat

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English
University of Toronto Press
03 March 2026
Series: Culinaria
Italy is celebrated around the world for its cuisine: simple, rustic, and tasteful. Likewise, Italy's cinema has continuously garnered great acclaim. Yet, the history behind their food

and the ways it has been treated in media

is decidedly more complicated.

reveals both the progression and devolution of Italy's filmic foodscape from 1954 to 1973.

Following the diegesis of Italy's transition from hunger to abundance across these decades, as visceral needs morphed into other forms of desire, this book portrays how the anxieties surrounding food began as a light-hearted, comedic nostalgia, but later transitioned into fatalistic panic.
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Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication:   Canada
Dimensions:   Height: 232mm,  Width: 155mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   530g
ISBN:   9781487564643
ISBN 10:   1487564643
Series:   Culinaria
Pages:   256
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Earning her postgraduate degrees at Columbia University, Niki Kiviat currently serves on the World Language Faculty at Greenwich Country Day School, where she teaches Italian and Spanish.

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