Consuming Gothic: Food and Horror in Film

by Lorna Piatti-Farnell

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137450509
• ISBN13: 9781137450500
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"