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Becoming : genre, queerness, and transformation in NBC's Hannibal / edited by Kavita Mudan Finn and EJ Nielsen ; with a foreword by Janice Poon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mudan Finn, Kavita
- Series:
- Television and popular culture.
- Television and popular culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homosexuality on television.
- Homosexuality and television.
- Hannibal (Television program : 2013-2015).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 321 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- The NBC series Hanniba l has garnered both critical and fan acclaim for its cinematic qualities, its complex characters, and its innovative reworking of Thomas Harris's mythology so well-known from Jonathan Demme's Silence of the Lambs (1991) and its variants. The series concluded late in 2015 after three seasons, despite widespread fan support for its continuation. While there is a healthy body of scholarship on Harris's novels and Demme's film adaptation, little critical attention has been paid to this newest iteration of the character and narrative.Hannibal builds on the serial killer narratives of popular procedurals, while taking them in a drastically different direction. Like critically acclaimed series such as Breaking Bad and The Sopranos, it makes its viewers complicit in the actions of a deeply problematic individual and, in the case of Hannibal, forces them to confront that complicity through the character of Will Graham. The essays in Becoming explore these questions of authorship and audience response as well as the show's themes of horror, gore, cannibalism, queerness, and transformation. Contributors also address Hannibal's distinctive visual, auditory, and narrative style. Concluding with a compelling interview with series writer Nick Antosca, this volume will both entertain and educate scholars and fans of Hannibal and its many iterations.
- Contents:
- Introduction: a love crime / Kavita Mudan Finn and EJ Nielsen
- The Hannibalization of America: The Cannibal gourmet as Promethean gift giver / Andrew Owen and Leanne Havis
- Hannibal Lecter's monstrous return: The horror of seriality in Bryan Fuller's Hannibal / Jessica Balanzategui, Naja Later, and Tara Lomax
- "Adapt. Evolve. Become.": queering Red Dragon in Bryan Fuller's Hannibal / Ellie Lewerenz
- Monstrous masculinities in gothic romance: Will Graham, Jane Eyre, and Caleb Williams / Evan Hayles Gledhill
- "Whispering through the Chrysalis": Hannibal Lecter and the poetics of mentorship / Gabriel A. Rieger
- The great Red Dragon: Francis Dolarhyde and queer readings of Skin / Evelyn Deshane
- Hannibal and the cannibal: tracking colonial imaginaries / Samira Nadkarni and Rukmini Pande
- Bedelia Du Maurier: Hannibal's femme fatale and Final Girl / Kara M. French
- "Some lazy psychiatry, Dr. Lecter": teacups, narrative, and Hannibal's critique of psychoanalysis / Karen Felts
- "Do you see?": clues, reasoning, and connoisseurship / Michelle D. Miranda
- Fannibals are still hungry: feeding Hannibal and other series companion cookbooks as immersive fan experience / Amanda Ewoldt
- Hannibal: adaptation and authorship in the age of fan production / Lori Morimoto
- Rei(g)ning Lecter: an interview with series writer Nick Antosca on Hannibal / Matthew Sorrento
- Appendix: Hannibal episodes
- Contributors.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780815654643
- 0815654642
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