Acknowledgements
Introduction
I. Let the Eater Beware
1. Death at the Drive-Thru: Fast Food Betrayal in Poultrygeist and Bad Taste
Cynthia 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 Consumption
Alex Pinar and Salvador Murguia (Akita International University, Japan)
5. The Goo in You: Eating (and Being Eaten) in The Stuff
A. Bowdoin Van Riper (Independent Scholar, USA)
II. Sins of the Flesh
6. Cannibalism as Cultural Critique: Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989) and Thatcherism
Thomas Prasch (Washburn University, USA)
7. "The red gums were their own": Food, Flesh, and the Female in Beloved
Bart 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 301/302
Tom Hertweck (University of Nevada, USA)
9. Flesh and Blood in Claude Chabrol's Le boucher
Jennifer L. Holm (University of Virginia's College at Wise, USA)
10. A Hunger for Dead Cakes: Visions of Abjection, Scapegoating and the Sin Eater
Ralph Beliveau (University of Oklahoma, USA)
III. The Extreme End of Consumption
11. Coprophagia as Class and Consumerism in the Human Centipede Films
Mark Henderson (Tuskegee University, USA)
12. Eat, Kill . Love? Courtship, Cannibalism, and Consumption in Hannibal
Michael Fuchs (University of Graz, Austria) and Michael Phillips (University of Graz, Austria)
13. Catering to the Cult of Ishtar: Blood Feast
Rob 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 Film
Erin E. Wiegand (Independent Scholar, USA)
IV. You Are What You Eat
16. "You Are What Others Think You Eat:" Food, Identity, and Subjectivity in Zombie Protagonist Narratives
LuAnne Roth (University of Missouri, USA)
17. From Sugar-Fueled Killer to Grotesque Gourmand: The Culinary Maturation of the Cinematic Serial Killer
Mark 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 Todd
Vivian Halloran (Indiana University, USA)
20. All-Consuming Passions: Vampire Foodways in Contemporary Film and Television
Alexandra Frank (Independent Scholar, USA)
About the Editors
Notes on Contributors
Index
