{"product_id":"whats-eating-you-cynthia-j-miller-9781501343964","title":"What's Eating You?: Food and Horror on Screen","description":"Divided into four thematic sections, \u003ci\u003eWhat's Eating You?\u003c\/i\u003e explores the deeper significance of food on screen-the ways in which they reflect (or challenge) our deepest fears about consuming and being consumed. Among the questions it asks are: How do these films mock our taboos and unsettle our notions about the human condition? How do they critique our increasing focus on consumption? In what ways do they hold a mirror to our taken-for-granteds about food and humanity, asking if what we eat truly matters?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHorror narratives routinely grasp those questions and spin them into nightmares. Monstrous \"others+? dine on forbidden fare; the tables of consumption are turned, and the consumer becomes the consumed. Overindulgence, as \u003ci\u003eLe Grande Bouffe\u003c\/i\u003e (1973) and \u003ci\u003eStreet Trash \u003c\/i\u003e(1987) warn, can kill us, and occasionally, as films like \u003ci\u003eThe Stuff\u003c\/i\u003e (1985) and \u003ci\u003ePoultrygeist \u003c\/i\u003e(2006) illustrate, our food fights back. From \u003ci\u003eBlood Feast \u003c\/i\u003e(1963) to \u003ci\u003eSweeney Todd \u003c\/i\u003e(2007), motion pictures have reminded us that it is an \"eat or be eaten+? world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cynthia J. Miller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501343963\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501343964\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/23\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d","brand":"Cynthia J. Miller","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45265063117055,"sku":"9781501343964","price":47.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9a1dbb60-f8f8-4c86-8354-2250bee95abc.jpg?v=1713420041","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/whats-eating-you-cynthia-j-miller-9781501343964","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}