What’s Eating You? Food and Horror on Screen

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Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Epigraph Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction To eat, or not to eat Dangerous dishes What’s eating you? Food and horror Notes Bibliography Part one Let the Eater Beware 1 Death at the Drive-Thru: Fast Food Betrayal in Bad Taste and Poultrygeist Crunchy delights and zombie chicken The horrors of fast food The political economy of betrayal Conclusion Notes Bibliography 2 Let Them Eat Steak: Food and the Family Horror Film Cycle Tastes like chicken: Poltergeist and the food politics of Reaganite entertainment Farms, tables, and chainsaws: cannibalism and community-supported agriculture in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre You never did eat lunch, did you? or, Marion Crane’s untimely death row meal Conclusion Notes Bibliography 3 Much Still Depends on Dinner: Cannibalism and Culinary Carnival in Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland Culinary carnival Fast food/mindless eating Meals and family bonding Notes Bibliography 4 Dumplings: The Commodification of Cannibalism and the Liminal Condition of Consumption The film Reception and interpretation Commodification of cannibalism and the liminal condition of consumption Conclusion Notes Bibliography 5 The Goo in You: Food as Invader in The Stuff The story of The Stuff Losing our minds Unraveling the social fabric The ideology of the cancer cell Conclusion: the enemy within Notes Bibliography Part Two Sins of the Flesh 6 Cannibalism as Cultural Critique: Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover and Thatcherism Eating emblematically: the form of the feast Curtains, color coding, menus, and dichotomies: Greenaway’s formalist layering Dutch painting, Jacobean tragedy, the French Revolution, and religious iconography: Greenaway’s allusive layering The enemies and allies of culture: the cultural critique of Thatcherism Final feast Notes Bibliography 7 “The red gums were their own”: Food, Flesh, and the Female in Beloved Food and the fantastic Temptress and trickster The devouring mother Conclusion Notes Bibliography 8 “Do I Look Tasty to You?”: Cannibalism beyond Speech and the Limits of Food Capitalism in Park’s 301/302 Consuming meat, consuming women: 302 and traumatic markets Marriage roles and appetites: 301 and a desire to be sated Men and women, speaking and silence, eating and hunger Conclusion: consuming Korean women’s oppression Notes Bibliography 9 Flesh and Blood in Claude Chabrol’s Le Boucher Notes Bibliography 10 A Hunger for Dead Cakes: Visions of Abjection, Scapegoating, and the Sin-Eater Sin-Eaters: an unnatural mythology All in the sin-eater family Food, abjection, and the breakdown of meaning The Sin-Eater as scapegoat Conclusion: scapegoating the community Notes Bibliography Part three The Extreme End of Consumption 11 Coprophagia as Class and Consumerism in the Human Centipede Films The Human Centipede (First Sequence): class and the fetishism of commodities The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence): consumerism as class emulation The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence): full circle Notes Bibliography 12 Eat, Kill, . . . Love? Courtship, Cannibalism, and Consumption in Hannibal Rebooting Dr. Hannibal Lecter A different breed of killer Of cannibals, class, and consumption Eat, kill . . . love? Doctor, eat thyself Notes Bibliography 13 Catering to the Cult of Ishtar: Blood Feast Preparations for a feast The cult of Ishtar The invention of “gorror” Maidens and meat Conclusion: selling the sizzle Notes Bibliography 14 From Gourmet to Gore: Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Delicatessen The political economy of meat A finite universe of archetypes The banality of cannibalism The choice “not to know” as political metaphor Conclusion Notes Bibliography 15 Who Can Be Eaten? Consuming Animals and Humans in the Cannibal-Savage Horror Film The savage cannibal Animal violence and consumption The authentic animal death Food taboos in the cannibal-savage film Who can be eaten? Notes Bibliography Part Four You Are What You Eat 16 “You Are What Others Think You Eat”: Food, Identity, and Subjectivity in Zombie Protagonist Narratives Zombie foodways on screen: a brief history Beyond brains: food and the comedic zombie Food and conflicted identity in zombie dramas Conclusion Notes Bibliography 17 From Sugar-Fueled Killer to Grotesque Gourmand: The Culinary Maturation of the Cinematic Serial Killer “Frantic indulgence of childish appetites”: Hans Beckert and M Sandwiches, milk, and candy corn: Hitchcock’s killer children and their descendants After Lecter: the serial killer grows up Notes Bibliography 18 Consumption, Cannibalism, and Corruption in Jorge Michel Grau’s Somos lo que hay Historicization, poverty, and consumption Cannibalism, youth culture, and disaffection Corruption, community, and urban tribes Conclusion Notes Bibliography 19 Sinister Pastry: British “Meat” Pies in Titus and Sweeney Todd Sins of the flesh Food and corruption Culinary etymology and the English housewife Professional cooks and the absent housewives Conclusion Notes Bibliography 20 All-Consuming Passions: Vampire Foodways in Contemporary Film and Television Blood and identity Blood as a drug Blood and the social order Conclusion Notes Bibliography About the Editors Notes on Contributors Index