What's eating you? food and horror on screen

Let the eater beware. Death at the drive-thru: fast food betrayal in Poultrygeist and Bad taste / Cynthia J. Miller -- Let them eat steak: food and the family horror cycle / Hans Staats -- Much still depends on dinner: cannibalism and culinary carnival in Shaun of the dead (2004) and Zombieland / Su...

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Weitere Verfasser: Miller, Cynthia J. (HerausgeberIn), Van Riper, Anthony Bowdoin (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York, London Bloomsbury Academic 2017
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Zusammenfassung:Let the eater beware. Death at the drive-thru: fast food betrayal in Poultrygeist and Bad taste / Cynthia J. Miller -- Let them eat steak: food and the family horror cycle / Hans Staats -- Much still depends on dinner: cannibalism and culinary carnival in Shaun of the dead (2004) and Zombieland / Sue Matheson -- Dumplings: the commodification of cannibalism and the liminal condition of consumption / Alex Pinar and Salvador Murguia -- The goo in you: eating (and being eaten) in The stuff / A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- Sins of the flesh. Cannibalism as cultural critique: Peter Greenaway's The cook, the thief, his wife, and her lover (1989) and Thatcherism / Thomas Prasch -- "The red gums were their own": food, flesh, and the female in Beloved / Bart Bishop -- "Do I look tasty to you?": cannibalism beyond speech and the limits of food capitalism in Park's 301/302 / Tom Hertweck -- Flesh and blood in Claude Chabrol's Le boucher / Jennifer L. Holm -- A hunger for dead cakes: visions of abjection, scapegoating and the sin eater / Ralph Beliveau -- The extreme end of consumption. Coprophagia as class and consumerism in the human centipede films / Mark Henderson -- Eat, kill " love" courtship, cannibalism, and consumption in Hannibal / Michael Fuchs and Michael Phillips -- Catering to the cult of Ishtar: blood feast / Rob Weiner and A. Bowdoin Van Riper -- From gourmet to gore: Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Delicatessen / Karen A. Ritzenhoff and Cynthia J. Miller -- Who can be eaten? consuming animals and humans in the cannibal-savage horror film / Erin E. Wiegand -- You are what others think you eat: food, identity, and subjectivity in zombie protagonist narratives / Luanne Roth -- From sugar-fueled killer to grotesque gourmand: the culinary maturation of the cinematic serial killer / Mark Bernard -- Consumption, cannibalism, and corruption in Jorge Michel Grau's Somos lo que hay / Stacy Rusnak -- Sinister pastry: British "meat" pies in Titus and Sweeny Todd / Vivian Halloran -- All-consuming passions: vampire foodways in contemporary film and television / Alexandra Frank
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:ix, 370 pages
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24 cm
ISBN:9781501322389
978-1-5013-2238-9