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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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
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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.