Hannibal for dinner : essays on America's favorite cannibal on television / edited by Kyle A. Moody and Nicholas A. Yanes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moody, Kyle A., 1983- editor.

Yanes, Nicholas A., 1982- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thrillers (Television programs)--United States--History and criticism.

Thrillers (Television programs).

Hannibal (Television program : 2013-2015).

Harris, Thomas, 1940---Television adaptations.

Harris, Thomas.

Lecter, Hannibal (Fictitious character), 1933-.

Lecter, Hannibal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2021]

Summary:

"NBC's Hannibal only lasted for three seasons but became a critical darling and quickly inspired a ravenous fanbase. Bryan Fuller's adaptation of Hannibal Lecter's adventures created a new set of fans and a cult audience through its stunning visuals, playful characters, and mythical tableaus of violence that doubled as works of art. The show became a nexus point for viewers that explored consumption, queerness, beauty, crime, and the meaning of love through a lens of blood and gore. Much like the show, this collection is a love letter to America's favorite cannibal, celebrating the multiple ways that Hannibal expanded the mythology, food culture, fandom, artistic achievements, and religious symbolism of the work of Thomas Harris. Primarily focusing on Hannibal, this book combines interviews and academic essays that examine the franchise, its evolution, creatively bold risks, and the art of creating a TV show that consumed the hearts and minds of its audience"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: The hors d'oeuvre / Kyle A. Moody and Nicholas A. Yanes

Giving voice to the unmentionable : how Hannibal Lecter uses bodies in the television series Hannibal / Lisa Rufus

My darling cannibal : the mechanics of perverse allegiance in Hannibal / Kirsty Worrow

Empathy for the audience : Hannibal, the fannibals and what happens when a show takes its fandom seriously / Nicole Michaud Wild

Interview: Tom de Ville / Nicholas A. Yanes

Bodies that change : transformation, body dysmorphia and the malleability of identity in Bryan Fuller's Hannibal / Samantha McLaren

Cannibalizing Hannibal : the horrific and appetizing rewriting of Hannibal mythology / Naja Later

"If I saw you every day, forever, I'd remember this time" : deconstructing gender performance and heteronormativity through adaptation / Megan Fowler

Go with the flow : Will Graham and liminality in Bryan Fuller's Hannibal / Lorianne Reuser

Interview : Nick Antosca / Nicholas A. Yanes

Eating exquisite corpses and drinking new wine : the Chesapeake Ripper as the authentic surreal murderer / Vittoria Lion

Food culture in Hannibal / Megan McAllister

Matchless in his irony : divinity and the aesthetics of death in Bryan Fuller's Hannibal / Anamarija Horvat

Interview : Martha De Laurentiis / Nocholas A. Yanes

It's a matter of taste : Bourdieu and the impeccably mannered anthropophagite / Sarah Cleary

Stranger in a strange land : Hannibal as an adaptation of Stoker's and Browning's Dracula / Simon Bacon

Pygmalion of a broken mind : physical and mental desire in Will Graham and Hannibal Lecter's relationship / Olimpia Calì

Gender/animal suits : adapting Buffalo Bill from The silence of the lambs to NBC's Hannibal / Evelyn Deshane

Queer(y)ing adaptation : Bryan Fuller's Hannibal as slash fiction gothic romance / Evan Hayles Gledhill

An art form that honors aesthetic and taste : the art of murder and the art of television in Hannibal / Michael Fuchs

The rise of the showrunner in Hannibal : Bryan Fuller as simultaneous fan author and legitimate auteur / Kyle A. Moody

Afterword: Dining in-the legacy of Bryan Fuller's Hannibal, or, how Hannibal inspired us to eat better / Nicholas A. Yanes.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4766-4162-5