Birra e salsicce. Il corpo attraverso il cibo nel cinema italiano

Food, nutrition, and body have always been closely linked and they have been used by Italian cinema to narrate contemporary society or to assert a theoretical point of view. Since the silent era, in Italian cinema food and bodies have been used differently depending on the genre and the auteur. The essay traces some important moments along this path: the fascist comedies; the comedies produced during and after the Italian economic miracle; the film d’auteur (Fellini, Ferreri, Pasolini, and Moretti); the genre film; the food industrialization of the 1980s which led to a distorted relationship between food and body (diets and eating disorders); and finally, the contemporary foodification and Slow Food.