Consuming Gothic

Food and Horror in Film

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by Lorna Piatti-Farnell

Type

Stories

Subject

Genre > Horror

Keywords

horror, food

Publishing date

2017

Publisher

Palgrave MacMillan

Collection

Palgrave Gothic

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 285 pages
6 x 8 ½ inches (15 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-137-45050-0

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Book Presentation:
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 porous boundaries of the body, and the uncanny limits of consumer identity collide. Aimed at scholars, researchers, and students of the field, Consuming Gothic charts different manifestations of food and horror in film while identifying specific socio-political and cultural anxieties of contemporary life.

About the Author:
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 history.

Press Reviews:
"[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)

See the publisher website: Palgrave MacMillan