What's eating you? : food and horror on screen /: food and horror on screen. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper.
• Editors: Miller, Cynthia J, 1958-; Van Riper, A. Bowdoin
• 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: food as invader 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 you eat. 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.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 370 pages)
• Subjects: 791.43/6564; Food & society; Horror films -- History and criticism; Food in motion pictures; Cannibalism in motion pictures; PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference; Cannibalism in motion pictures; Food in motion pictures; Horror films; Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism; Social Science -- Agriculture & Food; Film: styles & genres; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501322396; 1501322397; 9781501322419; 1501322419
• Related ISBNs: 9781501322389
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 02, 2017).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.