What's Eating You? - by Cynthia J Miller & A Bowdoin Van Riper (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Divided into four thematic sections, <i>What's Eating You?</i> 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?<br/><br/>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 <i>Le Grande Bouffe</i> (1973) and <i>Street Trash </i>(1987) warn, can kill us, and occasionally, as films like <i>The Stuff</i> (1985) and <i>Poultrygeist </i>(2006) illustrate, our food fights back. From <i>Blood Feast </i>(1963) to <i>Sweeney Todd </i>(2007), motion pictures have reminded us that it is an "eat or be eaten+? world.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Full of delicious little morsels, this collection will be devoured by horror scholars. Covering a smorgasbord of different types of horror, from <i>Zombieland</i> to <i>Le Boucher</i>, and from <i>Human Centipede</i> to <i>Beloved</i>, this collection is a feast that will leave one satisfied and yet wanting more.<br/>Mark Jancovich, Professor, School of Art, Media and American Studies, UEA, UK<br><br>The simple yet profound focus on eating draws fresh approaches to a range of films. Some are canonical horror classics (<i>Psycho</i>, <i>Night of the Living Dead, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre</i>) and some cultish favourites (<i>Dumplings, Bad Taste</i>, <i>The Stuff, Blood Feast</i>), and some generally understood as outside the genre but revealing surprising links through the prism of consumption (<i>The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover</i>, <i>Beloved</i>). Aficionados of horror shall find much here to devour.<br/>Murray Leeder, Instructor and Editor of Cinematic Ghosts: Haunting and Spectrality from Silent Cinema to the Digital Era (2015), University of Calgary, Canada<br><br>This wide ranging collection of essays illuminates the inventive ways that film and television explore the complex connections among food choices - especially taboo choices - and the monstrous other, the potentially monstrous self, the industrial food system, and inequality in modern society.<br/>Cynthia Baron, Professor of Theatre and Film and co-author of Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation (2014), Bowling Green State University, USA<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Cynthia J. Miller </b>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<i> Journal of Popular Television</i>. 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. <p/><b>A. Bowdoin Van Riper </b>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 <i>Imagining Flight: Aviation in Popular Culture</i> (2003), <i> A Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists and Inventors in American Film and Television</i> (2011).</p>
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