Man-eating monsters : anthropocentrism and popular culture /

• Other Authors: Khapaeva, Dina (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019.
• Series: Emerald studies in death and culture.
• Subjects: Monsters in popular culture.; Cannibalism > Social aspects.; Monsters > Social aspects.; Animal rights.; Social Science > Anthropology > Cultural & Social.; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.

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...

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.