Scholarly Articles

Anne Gilbert notes the increasing popularity of the “first-person diary-style approach” at documentary filmmaking in her review of Supersize Me. Like Murray and Heumann, Gilbert argues that Supersize Me's success comes mostly from Spurlock's charming…

Review of Richard Linklater's documentary Fast Food Nation.

Bradshaw, Nick. "Fast Food Nation." Sight & Sound 17.3 (2007): 54. International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text. Web. 13 Dec. 2013.

Critic Daniel Trilling reviewed Robert Kenner's documentary Food Inc., also noting its limited success at inciting social reform and comparing it to Upton Sinclair's famous muckraker novel The Jungle. Trilling states that Kenner, “when faced with the…

Robin Murray and Joseph Heumann discuss the recent popularity growth of food oriented documentaries in their article Contemporary Eco-Food Films: the Documentary Tradition. Murray and Heumann observe that many recent food documentaries have focused…

Diane Negra discusses Americans' interest with foreign foods.

Negra, Diane. "Ethnic Food Fetishism, Whiteness, And Nostalgia In Recent Film And Television." Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal Of Film & Television 50 (2002): 62. Academic Search…

Alissa Quart discusses ant-corporate sentiments of recent documentaries including Morgan Spurlock's film Supersize Me.

Quart, Alissa. "Dude, Where's My Aesthetic?." Film Comment 40.3 (2004): 20-21. Academic Search Premier. Web. 13 Dec. 2013.