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  title info:
    title: Man-eating monsters
    sub title: anthropocentrism and popular culture
  name:
    name part: Khapaeva, Dina
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 117 pages) ; cm.
  abstract: 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 attitudes toward people, monsters, animals, and death.This volume analyzes how previous epochs represented man-eating monsters and cannibalism. Cultural taboos across the world are explored and brought into perspective whilst we contemplate how the representations of humans as commodities can create a global atmosphere that creeps towards cannibalism as a norm.This book also explores the links between the role played by the animal rights movement in problematizing the difference between humans and nonhuman animals. Instead of looking at the relations between food, body, and culture, or the ways in which media images of food reach out to various constituencies and audiences, as some existing studies do, this collection is focused on the crucial question, of how and why popular culture representations diffuse the borders between monsters, people, and animals, and how this affects our ideas about what may and may not be eaten.
  table of contents: Prelims -- 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 Levinass Meeting with the Zombies -- Chapter 3 Terrapin Monster -- Chapter 4 Blue Books, Baedekers, Cookbooks, and the Monsters in the Mirror: Bram Stokers Dracula -- Chapter 5 The Soviet Cannibal: Who Eats Whom in Andrey Platonovs "Rubbish Wind" -- Chapter 6 Edible Humans: Undermining the Human in The Walking Dead and Other Zombie Television -- Index.
  note: edited by Dina Khapaeva (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA).
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    topic: Monsters in popular culture
  subject:
    topic: Cannibalism
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Monsters
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Animal rights
  subject:
    topic: Social Science
    topic: Anthropology
    topic: Cultural & Social
  subject:
    topic: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
  classification: GR825 .M36 2019
  classification: 001.944
  classification: 398
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Emerald studies in death and culture
  identifier: 9781787695276 (e-book)
  identifier: https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781787695276
  record info:
    record content source: UtOrBLW
    record creation date: 191115
    record change date: 20191115113055.0
    record identifier: 9781787695276
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng