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

ISBN:

9781501322402

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Author:

Miller, Cynthia J., 1958- editor.

Publication Information:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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.

Subject Term:

Horror films -- History and criticism.

Food in motion pictures.

Cannibalism in motion pictures.

Added Author:

Miller, Cynthia J., 1958-

Van Riper, A. Bowdoin,

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Publication Date:

2017

Publication Information:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

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Summary

Divided into four thematic sections, What's Eating You? explores the deeper significance of food on screen--the ways in which they reflect (or challenge) our deepest fears about consuming and being consumed. Among the questions it asks are: How do these films mock our taboos and unsettle our notions about the human condition? How do they critique our increasing focus on consumption? In what ways do they hold a mirror to our taken-for-granteds about food and humanity, asking if what we eat truly matters?Horror narratives routinely grasp those questions and spin them into nightmares. Monstrous "others" dine on forbidden fare; the tables of consumption are turned, and the consumer becomes the consumed. Overindulgence, as Le Grande Bouffe (1973) and Street Trash (1987) warn, can kill us, and occasionally, as films like The Stuff (1985) and Poultrygeist (2006) illustrate, our food fights back. From Blood Feast (1963) to Sweeney Todd (2007), motion pictures have reminded us that it is an "eat or be eaten" world.

Author Notes

Cynthia J. Miller is a Scholar-in-Residence at Emerson College, USA, and a cultural anthropologist specializing in popular culture and visual media. She serves on the board of the National Popular Culture/American Culture Association, and is Treasurer and Governing Board member of the International Association for Media and History, as well as Director of Communication for the Center for the Study of Film and History. She also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Popular Television . She is the winner of the James Welsh Prize for lifetime achievement in adaptation studies and the Peter C. Rollins prize for a book-length work in popular culture. A. Bowdoin Van Riper is a historian who specializes in depictions of science and technology in popular culture. He is Web Coordinator for the Center for the Study of Film and History and an archivist for the Martha's Vineyard Museum. Van Riper's publications include Imagining Flight: Aviation in Popular Culture (2003), A Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists and Inventors in American Film and Television (2011).