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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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What's Eating You?: Food and Horror on Screen
2018, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
in English
1501343963 9781501343964
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What's Eating You?: Food and Horror on Screen
2017, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
in English
1501322389 9781501322389
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What's Eating You?: Food and Horror on Screen
2017, Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
in English
1501322419 9781501322419
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What's Eating You?: Food and Horror on Screen
2017, Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
in English
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