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What's Eating You? - Food and Horror on Screen (Hardcover)
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What's Eating You? - Food and Horror on Screen (Hardcover)
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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.
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