Television That Tastes Good

The generous pedagogy of Julia Child and The French Chef
by Dana Polan   posted Aug 6, 2009

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KEYWORDS

Julia Child  |  Meryl Streep  |  television  |  Julie & Julia  |  The French Chef (TV show)  |  sexuality  |  Paul Child  |  adaptation  |  Hollywood  |  Cold War  |  France

FURTHER RESEARCH

Selected episodes of The French Chef (PBS.org)

FURTHER READING

"Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch," by Michael Pollan (The New York Times Magazine)
"Our Lady of the Kitchen," by Laura Jacobs (Vanity Fair)

THE AUTHOR

Dana Polan is a professor of Cinema Studies in the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. He is the author of six books on film and has two books, The Sopranos and The French Chef, forthcoming in Spin-Offs, a new Duke University Press series on groundbreaking television shows.

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