What's Eating You?

Cynthia J. Miller is a Scholar-in-Residence at Emerson College, USA, and a cultural anthropologist specializing in popular culture and visual media. She serves on the board of the National Popular Culture/American Culture Association, and is Treasurer and Governing Board member of the International Association for Media and History, as well as Director of Communication for the Center for the Study of Film and History. She also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Popular Television. She is the winner of the James Welsh Prize for lifetime achievement in adaptation studies and the Peter C. Rollins prize for a book-length work in popular culture.A. Bowdoin Van Riper is a historian who specializes in depictions of science and technology in popular culture. He is Web Coordinator for the Center for the Study of Film and History and an archivist for the Martha's Vineyard Museum. Van Riper's publications include Imagining Flight: Aviation in Popular Culture (2003), A Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists and Inventors in American Film and Television (2011).

[A] significant contribution to food and horror literature.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionI. Let the Eater Beware1. Death at the Drive-Thru: Fast Food Betrayal in Poultrygeist and Bad TasteCynthia J. Miller (Emerson College, USA)2. Let Them Eat Steak: Food and the Family Horror Cycle Hans Staats (Independent Scholar, USA)3. Much Still Depends on Dinner: Cannibalism and Culinary Carnival in Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Zombieland (2009)Sue Matheson (University College of the North, Canada)4. Dumplings: The Commodification of Cannibalism and the Liminal Condition of ConsumptionAlex Pinar and Salvador Murguia (Akita International University, Japan)5. The Goo in You: Eating (and Being Eaten) in The StuffA. Bowdoin Van Riper (Independent Scholar, USA)II. Sins of the Flesh6. Cannibalism as Cultural Critique: Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989) and ThatcherismThomas Prasch (Washburn University, USA)7. "The red gums were their own": Food, Flesh, and the Female in BelovedBart Bishop (is Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, USA)8. “Do I Look Tasty to You?:” Cannibalism Beyond Speech and the Limits of Food Capitalism in Park’s 301/302Tom Hertweck (University of Nevada, USA)9. Flesh and Blood in Claude Chabrol’s Le boucherJennifer L. Holm (University of Virginia's College at Wise, USA)10. A Hunger for Dead Cakes: Visions of Abjection, Scapegoating and the Sin EaterRalph Beliveau (University of Oklahoma, USA)III. The Extreme End of Consumption11. Coprophagia as Class and Consumerism in the Human Centipede FilmsMark Henderson (Tuskegee University, USA)12. Eat, Kill … Love? Courtship, Cannibalism, and Consumption in HannibalMichael Fuchs (University of Graz, Austria) and Michael Phillips (University of Graz, Austria)13. Catering to the Cult of Ishtar: Blood FeastRob Weiner (Texas Tech University, USA) and A. Bowdoin Van Riper (Independent Scholar, USA)14. From Gourmet to Gore: Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Delicatessen (1991)Karen A. Ritzenhoff (Central Connecticut State University, USA) and Cynthia J. Miller (Emerson College, USA)15. Who Can Be Eaten? Consuming Animals and Humans in the Cannibal-Savage Horror FilmErin E. Wiegand (Independent Scholar, USA)IV. You Are What You Eat16. “You Are What Others Think You Eat:” Food, Identity, and Subjectivity in Zombie Protagonist NarrativesLuAnne Roth (University of Missouri, USA)17. From Sugar-Fueled Killer to Grotesque Gourmand: The Culinary Maturation of the Cinematic Serial KillerMark Bernard (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA)18. Consumption, Cannibalism, and Corruption in Jorge Michel Grau’s Somos lo que hay Stacy Rusnak (Georgia Gwinnett College, USA)19. Sinister Pastry: British “Meat” Pies in Titus and Sweeny ToddVivian Halloran (Indiana University, USA)20. All-Consuming Passions: Vampire Foodways in Contemporary Film and TelevisionAlexandra Frank (Independent Scholar, USA)About the EditorsNotes on ContributorsIndex