Ecocinema, Media, and the Environment

  By concentrating on one element of Michael Pollan’s work explored in Food, Inc. , corn production, and adding humor to the chilling inform...

  Food, Inc.  stands up as an adaptation of Pollan’s nonfiction book,  The Omnivore’s Dilemma , even following a similar narrative structure...

Following a pattern similar to Michael Pollan in The Omnivore’s Dilemma , the Talking-Heads documentary Food, Inc . attempts to illustrate h...

  Most food documentaries draw on an expository Talking-Heads approach and a rhetorical form that argues through a nostalgic vision of the p...

  Bill Nichols’  Introduction to Documentary  and Jack C. Ellis and Betsy A. McLane’s  A New History of Documentary Film  expand documentary...

  Food and Documentary Types F ood as a basic need has played a central role in documentary films as early as the Lumiere Brothers’ 1895 vie...

German director Nikolaus Gehrhalter’s Our Daily Bread (2005) argues effectively against the move to industrial farming by eliminating verbal...