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Corporate Crime and Conspiracy in Contemporary Television
  • ISSN: 2046-9861
  • E-ISSN: 2046-987X

Abstract

This article examines a Japanese television format, in which fiction narrative merges with cooking programmes, creating thus the hybrid Gourmet TV drama, a Japanese product that became known worldwide through the TV series, first presented on Netflix’s platform in 2017. In the past few years, Japan has set the bar for food shows particularly high because series like do not simply teach the audience how to cook, but they also teach the art of eating, presenting recipes with sumptuous and voluptuous food footage. The article examines how food functions in the twelve episodes of the series (in relation to memory, criticism of foreign cuisine and reassertion of social values), and how image and sound, through different techniques, try to make up for the audio-visual medium’s lack of taste and smell.

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Keyword(s): cooking format; food footage; hybrid genre; Japanese TV; Netflix; taste and memory

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