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Consuming Gothic: Food and Horror in Film
Lorna Piatti-Farnell
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Description for Consuming Gothic: Food and Horror in Film
hardcover. Series: Palgrave Gothic. Num Pages: 270 pages, 10 colour illustrations, 10 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Gothic
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137450500
SKU
V9781137450500
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About Lorna Piatti-Farnell
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Consuming Gothic: Food and Horror in Film
“[The title] would be particularly interesting for those working at the intersection of food studies, popular media, and critical theory. … For those interested in updates to classic horror tropes, the anthology provides smart and contemporary takes on zombies and vampires.” (KC Lynch, The Journal of the Fantastic in the Art, Vol. 30 (2), 2020)