Consuming Gothic
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Consuming Gothic

Food and Horror in Film

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Consuming Gothic

Food and Horror in Film

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781137450500
eBook ISBN
9781137450517
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. Chapter 1: Approaching Food andĀ Horror
  5. Chapter 2: Horror Matters: Abominable Substances andĀ theĀ Revulsions ofĀ Orality
  6. Chapter 3: Consuming Hunger: Body Narratives andĀ theĀ Controversies ofĀ Incorporation
  7. Chapter 4: A Taste forĀ Butchery: Slaughterhouse Narratives andĀ theĀ Consumable Body
  8. Chapter 5: Feeding Nightmares: Madness, Hauntings, andĀ theĀ Kitchen ofĀ Horrors
  9. Chapter 6: A Bitter Feast: Dining Tables inĀ their Horror Contexts
  10. Chapter 7: Conclusion: Consuming Gothic andĀ Its Discontents
  11. Filmography
  12. Index