‘Food is life’: Documenting the politics of food in Melanesia

In this article, I discuss two recent examples of women’s filmmaking in Melanesia. The documentaries are Tanah Mama (2014), focused on West Papua and Café Niugini (2015), set in Papua New Guinea. Both films explore and represent food in profoundly different ways. Here, I consider their respective de...

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Autor principal:	Ceridwen Spark
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Publicado:	Asia Pacific Network 2015
Materias:	Communication. Mass media P87-96 Journalism. The periodical press, etc. PN4699-5650
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:e029fbe0a36640e0b04a0ac3aa0125d82021-12-02T10:34:34Z‘Food is life’: Documenting the politics of food in Melanesia10.24135/pjr.v21i2.1191023-94992324-2035https://doaj.org/article/e029fbe0a36640e0b04a0ac3aa0125d82015-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/119https://doaj.org/toc/1023-9499https://doaj.org/toc/2324-2035In this article, I discuss two recent examples of women’s filmmaking in Melanesia. The documentaries are Tanah Mama (2014), focused on West Papua and Café Niugini (2015), set in Papua New Guinea. Both films explore and represent food in profoundly different ways. Here, I consider their respective depictions of food, demonstrating that Tanah Mama represents food as sustenance while Café Niugini renders food as ‘cuisine’ through the ‘creative performance’ of cookery. Nevertheless, and as I argue, both documentaries reflect the filmmakers’ interest in representing issues associated with food in the Pacific, including the importance of Indigenous access to land, population management, gender roles and the impact of changing cultural values on food consumption and health.Ceridwen SparkAsia Pacific NetworkarticleCommunication. Mass mediaP87-96Journalism. The periodical press, etc.PN4699-5650ENPacific Journalism Review, Vol 21, Iss 2 (2015)
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description	In this article, I discuss two recent examples of women’s filmmaking in Melanesia. The documentaries are Tanah Mama (2014), focused on West Papua and Café Niugini (2015), set in Papua New Guinea. Both films explore and represent food in profoundly different ways. Here, I consider their respective depictions of food, demonstrating that Tanah Mama represents food as sustenance while Café Niugini renders food as ‘cuisine’ through the ‘creative performance’ of cookery. Nevertheless, and as I argue, both documentaries reflect the filmmakers’ interest in representing issues associated with food in the Pacific, including the importance of Indigenous access to land, population management, gender roles and the impact of changing cultural values on food consumption and health.
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‘Food is life’: Documenting the politics of food in Melanesia

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