Man-Eating Monsters : Anthropocentrism and Popular Culture /

What role do man-eating monsters - vampires, zombies, werewolves and cannibals - play in contemporary culture? This book explores the question of whether recent representations of humans as food in popular culture characterizes a unique moment in Western cultural history and suggests a new set of at...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Khapaeva, Dina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley : Emerald Publishing, 2020.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Emerald studies in death and culture.
Temas:
Monsters in mass media.
Monsters in popular culture.
Monstres dans les médias.
Monstres dans la culture populaire.
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Social Science > Anthropology > Cultural & Social.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction Food for Monsters: Popular Culture and Our Basic Food Taboo
  • Chapter 1 Eaten in Jurassic World: Antihumanism and Popular Culture
  • Chapter 2 Transcendental Guilt and Eating Human Beings, Or Levinas's Meeting with the Zombies
  • Chapter 3 Terrapin Monster
  • Chapter 4 Blue Books, Baedekers, Cookbooks, and the Monsters in the Mirror: Bram Stoker's Dracula
  • Chapter 5 The Soviet Cannibal: Who Eats Whom in Andrey Platonov's "Rubbish Wind"
  • Chapter 6 Edible Humans: Undermining the Human in The Walking Dead and Other Zombie Television

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