Hannibal for dinner : essays on America's favorite cannibal on television /

NBC's Hannibal only lasted for three seasons but became a critical darling and quickly inspired a ravenous fanbase. Bryan Fuller's adaptation of Hannibal Lecter's adventures created a new set of fans and a cult audience through its stunning visuals, playful characters and mythical tab...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Moody, Kyle A., 1983- (Editor), Yanes, Nicholas A., 1982- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2021].
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The hors d'oeuvre / Kyle A. Moody and Nicholas A. Yanes
  • Giving voice to the unmentionable : how Hannibal Lecter uses bodies in the television series Hannibal / Lisa Rufus
  • My darling cannibal : the mechanics of perverse allegiance in Hannibal / Kirsty Worrow
  • Empathy for the audience : Hannibal, the fannibals and what happens when a show takes its fandom seriously / Nicole Michaud Wild
  • Interview: Tom de Ville / Nicholas A. Yanes
  • Bodies that change : transformation, body dysmorphia and the malleability of identity in Bryan Fuller's Hannibal / Samantha McLaren
  • Cannibalizing Hannibal : the horrific and appetizing rewriting of Hannibal mythology / Naja Later
  • "If I saw you every day, forever, I'd remember this time" : deconstructing gender performance and heteronormativity through adaptation / Megan Fowler
  • Go with the flow : Will Graham and liminality in Bryan Fuller's Hannibal / Lorianne Reuser
  • Interview : Nick Antosca / Nicholas A. Yanes
  • Eating exquisite corpses and drinking new wine : the Chesapeake Ripper as the authentic surreal murderer / Vittoria Lion
  • Food culture in Hannibal / Megan McAllister
  • Matchless in his irony : divinity and the aesthetics of death in Bryan Fuller's Hannibal / Anamarija Horvat
  • Interview : Martha De Laurentiis / Nocholas A. Yanes
  • It's a matter of taste : Bourdieu and the impeccably mannered anthropophagite / Sarah Cleary
  • Stranger in a strange land : Hannibal as an adaptation of Stoker's and Browning's Dracula / Simon Bacon
  • Pygmalion of a broken mind : physical and mental desire in Will Graham and Hannibal Lecter's relationship / Olimpia Calì
  • Gender/animal suits : adapting Buffalo Bill from The silence of the lambs to NBC's Hannibal / Evelyn Deshane
  • Queer(y)ing adaptation : Bryan Fuller's Hannibal as slash fiction gothic romance / Evan Hayles Gledhill
  • An art form that honors aesthetic and taste : the art of murder and the art of television in Hannibal / Michael Fuchs
  • The rise of the showrunner in Hannibal : Bryan Fuller as simultaneous fan author and legitimate auteur / Kyle A. Moody
  • Afterword: Dining in-the legacy of Bryan Fuller's Hannibal, or, how Hannibal inspired us to eat better / Nicholas A. Yanes.