In feasting our eyes food films and cultural identity in the united states laura lindenfeld and fabio parasecoli offer a comprehensive study of food films they frame their discussion around multiple themes that connect food films to identity formation in the united states including race ethnicity gender and sexuality. When we feast our eyes on food films we do so in deeply complicated and layered ways that engage us simultaneously as citizens and consumers food fi lms off er the opportunity to examine how we participate both consciously and unconsciously willingly and unwillingly in diverse discourses practices and structures that determine our role and position in the communities in which we operate. In feasting our eyes food films and cultural identity in the united states laura lindenfeld and fabio parasecoli offer a comprehensive study of food films they frame their discussion around multiple themes that connect food films to identity formation in the united states including race ethnicity gender and sexuality. Feasting our eyes takes a second look at these and other modern american food films to emphasize their conventional approaches to nation gender race sexuality and social status devoured visually and emotionally these films are particularly effective defenders of the status quo