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By Lorna Piatti-Farnell

This publication deals a severe research of the connection among foodstuff and horror in post-1980 cinema. comparing where of intake inside of cinematic constructions, Piatti-Farnell analyses how likely traditional meals are re-evaluated within the Gothic framework of irrationality and wish. The advanced and infrequently ambiguous dating among foodstuff and horror attracts vital and inescapable connections to concerns of disgust, starvation, abjection, violence, in addition to the sensationalisation of transgressive corporeality and enormous pleasures. by means of meals intake inside Gothic cinema, the e-book uncovers consuming as a metaphorical job of the self, the place the haunting psychology of the standard, the porous barriers of the physique, and the uncanny limits of client identification collide. geared toward students, researchers, and scholars of the sector, eating Gothic charts diverse manifestations of foodstuff and horror in movie whereas determining particular socio-political and cultural anxieties of latest life.

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This booklet bargains a serious research of the connection among meals and horror in post-1980 cinema. comparing where of intake inside cinematic constructions, Piatti-Farnell analyses how probably traditional meals are re-evaluated within the Gothic framework of irrationality and wish. The complex and sometimes ambiguous courting among meals and horror attracts vital and inescapable connections to issues of disgust, starvation, abjection, violence, in addition to the sensationalisation of transgressive corporeality and enormous pleasures.

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