What's eating you? : food and horror on screen / edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Cynthia J., 1958- editor.

Van Riper, A. Bowdoin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror films--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Food in motion pictures.

Cannibalism in motion pictures.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 370 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2017.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: What's eating you?

ISBN:

9781501322389

1501322389

OCLC:

962831710