Death is served : the serialization of death and its conceptualization through food metaphors in US literature and media /

The American cultural imaginary is hungry for death, and thus representations of death are prominently repeated and serialized in US literature and media. Stella Castelli shows how American culture fetishizes death as part of a repetition compulsion which stems from language's inability to sati...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Castelli, Stella (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2023]
Colección:American Culture Studies ; 40
Temas:
Death in literature.
Food in literature.
Death in mass media.
Death in popular culture.
America.
Cultural Studies.
Film.
Literature.
Media.
Popular Culture.
Television.
Mort dans la littérature.
Aliments dans la littérature.
Mort dans les médias.
Mort dans la culture populaire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
Death in literature
Death in mass media
Death in popular culture
Food in literature
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Paradoxical Nature of Death in America
  • 1. The Text Devouring the Dead: Edgar Allan Poe and David Lynch's American Gothic
  • 2. I am Dead, Yet I Live
  • The Zombie's Gluttonous Craving for the Living
  • 3. Producing the Corpse: Quentin Tarantino's Revenge Narratives
  • 4. Ingesting the Corpse: The Cannibal's Taste for Death
  • American Psycho and Hannibal
  • 5. Creator/Destroyer: The Serial Killer as an American Phenomenon
  • Conclusion: Death. Again
  • Acknowledgements
  • Bibliography
  • List of Illustrations

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