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This book examines how the iconic character Hannibal Lecter has
been revised and redeveloped across different screen media texts.
Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter has become one of Western
culture’s most influential and enduring models of monstrosity
since his emergence in 1981 in Red Dragon, Thomas Harris’ first
Lecter book. Lecter is now at the centre of an extensive
cross-mediated mythology, the most recent incarnation of which is
Bryan Fuller’s television program, Hannibal (NBC, 2013-2015).
This acclaimed series is the focus of Hannibal Lecter’s Forms,
Formulations, and Transformations, which examines how Fuller’s
program harnesses the iconic character to experiment with
traditional boundaries of genre, medium, taste, and narrative form.
Featuring chapters from established and emerging screen and popular
culture scholars from around the world, the book outlines how the
show operates as a striking experiment with televisual form and
formula. The book also explores how this experimentation is
embodied by the boundary-defying character, the savage
cannibalistic serial killer, practicing psychiatrist, and cultured
art enthusiast, Hannibal Lecter. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of the journal, Quarterly
Review of Film and Video.
This book examines how the iconic character Hannibal Lecter has
been revised and redeveloped across different screen media texts.
Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter has become one of Western culture's
most influential and enduring models of monstrosity since his
emergence in 1981 in Red Dragon, Thomas Harris' first Lecter book.
Lecter is now at the centre of an extensive cross-mediated
mythology, the most recent incarnation of which is Bryan Fuller's
television program, Hannibal (NBC, 2013-2015). This acclaimed
series is the focus of Hannibal Lecter's Forms, Formulations, and
Transformations, which examines how Fuller's program harnesses the
iconic character to experiment with traditional boundaries of
genre, medium, taste, and narrative form. Featuring chapters from
established and emerging screen and popular culture scholars from
around the world, the book outlines how the show operates as a
striking experiment with televisual form and formula. The book also
explores how this experimentation is embodied by the
boundary-defying character, the savage cannibalistic serial killer,
practicing psychiatrist, and cultured art enthusiast, Hannibal
Lecter. The chapters in this book were originally published as a
special issue of the journal, Quarterly Review of Film and Video.
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