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Consuming Gothic

Food and Horror in Film

Lorna Piatti-Farnell (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

276 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-45050-0 (ISBN)

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This book offers a critical analysis of the relationship between food and horror in post-1980 cinema. Evaluating the place of consumption within cinematic structures, Piatti-Farnell analyses how seemingly ordinary foods are re-evaluated in the Gothic framework of irrationality and desire. The complicated and often ambiguous relationship between food and horror draws important and inescapable connections to matters of disgust, hunger, abjection, violence, as well as the sensationalisation of transgressive corporeality and monstrous pleasures. By looking at food consumption within Gothic cinema, the book uncovers eating as a metaphorical activity of the self, where the haunting psychology of the everyday, the porous boundaries of the body, and the uncanny limits of consumer identity collide. Aimed at scholars, researchers, and students of the field, Consuming Gothic charts different manifestations of food and horror in film while identifying specific socio-political and cultural anxieties of contemporary life.

Dr Lorna Piatti-Farnell is Director of the Popular Culture Research Centre at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. She is the President and Founder of the Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia. She is the author of several books, including The Vampire in Contemporary Popular Literature (2014), and has published widely in the intersecting disciplines of Gothic studies, food studies, popular media, and cultural history.

1. Approaching Food and Horror.- 2. Horror Matters: Abominable Substances and the Revulsions of Orality.- 3. Consuming Hunger: Body Narratives and the Controversies of Incorporation.- 4. A Taste for Butchery: Slaughterhouse Narratives and the Consumable Body.- 5. Feeding Nightmares: Madness, Hauntings, and the Kitchen of Horrors .- 6. A Bitter Feast: Dining Tables in their Horror Contexts.- 7. Conclusion: Consuming Gothic and Its Discontents.

Erscheinungsdatum	25.03.2017
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Gothic
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Gothic
Zusatzinfo	10 Illustrations, color; IX, 276 p. 10 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Diätassistenz / Ernährungsberatung
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Biochemie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
Schlagworte	consumption • Culture • Disgust • Film • Food • Horror • Hunger • slaughter
ISBN-10	1-137-45050-9 / 1137450509
ISBN-13	978-1-137-45050-0 / 9781137450500
Zustand	Neuware