Historians At The Movies
Historians At The Movies features historians from around the world talking about your favorite movies and the history behind them. This isn't rivet-counting; this is fun. Eventually, we'll steal the Declaration of Independence.
Historians At The Movies
Chef with Emily Contois and Zenia Kish
This episode is for all of you who can't stop taking pictures of your food. I'm joined by Emily Contois (@emilycontois) and Zenia Kish (@zeniakish) to talk about Jon Favreau's Chef. This is an awesome episode and you're gonna love it.
About our guests:
Dr. Emily Contois is a scholar and teacher of media, food, health, and identity. Her book, Diners, Dudes & Diets: How Gender and Power Collide in Food Media & Culture (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) demonstrates how the food, marketing, and media industries manipulated the concept of "the dude" in order to sell feminized food phenomena to men post-2000. She considers examples such as cookbooks, food TV, yogurts, and weight loss programs. She is also co-editor with Dr. Zenia Kish of Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation (University of Illinois Press, 2022).
Dr. Zenia Kish is an assistant professor of Media Studies at the University of Tulsa and the assistant director of The Oklahoma Center for the Humanities. With Emily Contois she is co-editor of Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation (University of Illinois Press, 2022).