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  title info:
    title: Cannibalism in literature and film
  name:
    name part: Brown, Jennifer
    name part: 1980-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 258 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: From images of stewed missionaries to Hannibal Lecter's hiss, cannibals have intrigued while evoking horror and repulsion. The label of cannibal has been used throughout history to denigrate a given individual or group. By examining who is labelled cannibal at any given time, we can understand the fears, prejudices, accepted norms and taboos of society at that time. From the cannibal in colonial literature, to the idea of regional Gothic and the hillbilly cannibal, to serial killers, this book examines works by writers and directors including Joseph Conrad, H. Rider Haggard, Thomas Harris, Bret Easton Ellis, Cormac McCarthy, Wes Craven and Tim Burton. It explores questions of cultural identity and otherness in the modern period, offering an important and original examination of cultural norms and fears with reference to national, economic, linguistic and sexual identity. Amidst the sharp teeth and horrific appetite of the cannibal, the book examines real fears of over-consumerism and consumption that trouble an ever-growing modern world.
  note: Jennifer Brown.
  note: Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
  subject:
    topic: Cannibalism in literature
  subject:
    topic: Cannibalism in motion pictures
  subject:
    topic: Modernism (Literature)
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy
  subject:
    topic: PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance
  classification: PN56.C34 B76 2013
  classification: 809/.93355
  identifier: 9780230360518 (hardback)
  identifier: 0230360513 (hardback)
  identifier: 2012036840
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 121001
    record change date: 20151202172338.0
    record identifier: in00002798302