{"id":8222,"date":"2005-05-01T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-01T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lookingcloser.wordpress.com\/2005\/05\/01\/yes-richard-linklater-to-direct-fast-food-nation\/"},"modified":"2012-09-05T13:40:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T19:40:35","slug":"yes-richard-linklater-to-direct-fast-food-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/2005\/05\/yes-richard-linklater-to-direct-fast-food-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Linklater to direct "Fast Food Nation""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

It seems to be a whole new frontier\u2026 converting popular non-fiction books into big screen films. I learned last week at Biola that The Purpose-Driven Life<\/em> is about to become a feature film. (Try and figure THAT out!) Now, word that Richard Linklater (Before Sunset, Waking Life, School of Rock<\/em>)is taking on this essential work\u2026 Fast Food Nation<\/em><\/a>!<\/p>\n

What is Fast Food Nation<\/em>?
\nVia Coming Soon, here\u2019s the Houghton Mifflin summary:<\/p>\n

Are we what we eat? To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar Amerca. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled the juggernaut of American cultural imperialism abroad. That\u2019s a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning. Schlosser\u2019s myth-shattering survey stretches from the California subdivisions where the business was born to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike where many of fast food\u2019s flavors are concocted. He hangs out with the teenagers who make the restaurants run and communes with those unlucky enough to hold America\u2019s most dangerous job \u2014 meatpacker. He travels to Las Vegas for a giddily surreal franchisers\u2019 convention where Mikhail Gorbachev delivers the keynote address. He even ventures to England and Germany to clock the rate at which those countries are becoming fast food nations. Along the way, Schlosser unearths a trove of fascinating, unsettling truths \u2014 from the unholy alliance between fast food and Hollywood to the seismic changes the industry has wrought in food production, popular culture, and even real estate. He also uncovers the fast food chains\u2019 efforts to reel in the youngest, most susceptible consumers even while they hone their institutionalized exploitation of teenagers and minorities. Schlosser then turns a critical eye toward the hot topic of globalization \u2014 a phenomenon launched by fast food. \u201cFast Food Nation\u201d is a groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that may change the way America thinks about the way it eats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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