Research Catalog

Title

Hannibal for dinner : essays on America's favorite cannibal on television / edited by Kyle A. Moody and Nicholas A. Yanes.

Publication

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2021]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Moody, Kyle A., 1983-
• Yanes, Nicholas A., 1982-

Description

xiii, 321 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"NBC's Hannibal only lasted for three seasons but became a critical darling and quickly inspired a ravenous fanbase. Bryan Fuller's adaptation of Hannibal Lecter's adventures created a new set of fans and a cult audience through its stunning visuals, playful characters, and mythical tableaus of violence that doubled as works of art. The show became a nexus point for viewers that explored consumption, queerness, beauty, crime, and the meaning of love through a lens of blood and gore. Much like the show, this collection is a love letter to America's favorite cannibal, celebrating the multiple ways that Hannibal expanded the mythology, food culture, fandom, artistic achievements, and religious symbolism of the work of Thomas Harris. Primarily focusing on Hannibal, this book combines interviews and academic essays that examine the franchise, its evolution, creatively bold risks, and the art of creating a TV show that consumed the hearts and minds of its audience"--

Subjects

• Thrillers (Television programs)
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• United States
• Television adaptations
• Lecter, Hannibal (Fictitious character), 1933-
• Thrillers (Television programs) > United States > History and criticism
• Hannibal (Television program : 2013-2015)
• Harris, Thomas, 1940- > Television adaptations

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: The hors d'oeuvre / Kyle A. Moody and Nicholas A. Yanes -- Giving voice to the unmentionable : how Hannibal Lecter uses bodies in the television series Hannibal / Lisa Rufus -- My darling cannibal : the mechanics of perverse allegiance in Hannibal / Kirsty Worrow -- Empathy for the audience : Hannibal, the fannibals and what happens when a show takes its fandom seriously / Nicole Michaud Wild -- Interview: Tom de Ville / Nicholas A. Yanes -- Bodies that change : transformation, body dysmorphia and the malleability of identity in Bryan Fuller's Hannibal / Samantha McLaren -- Cannibalizing Hannibal : the horrific and appetizing rewriting of Hannibal mythology / Naja Later -- "If I saw you every day, forever, I'd remember this time" : deconstructing gender performance and heteronormativity through adaptation / Megan Fowler -- Go with the flow : Will Graham and liminality in Bryan Fuller's Hannibal / Lorianne Reuser -- Interview : Nick Antosca / Nicholas A. Yanes -- Eating exquisite corpses and drinking new wine : the Chesapeake Ripper as the authentic surreal murderer / Vittoria Lion -- Food culture in Hannibal / Megan McAllister -- Matchless in his irony : divinity and the aesthetics of death in Bryan Fuller's Hannibal / Anamarija Horvat -- Interview : Martha De Laurentiis / Nocholas A. Yanes -- It's a matter of taste : Bourdieu and the impeccably mannered anthropophagite / Sarah Cleary -- Stranger in a strange land : Hannibal as an adaptation of Stoker's and Browning's Dracula / Simon Bacon -- Pygmalion of a broken mind : physical and mental desire in Will Graham and Hannibal Lecter's relationship / Olimpia Calì -- Gender/animal suits : adapting Buffalo Bill from The silence of the lambs to NBC's Hannibal / Evelyn Deshane -- Queer(y)ing adaptation : Bryan Fuller's Hannibal as slash fiction gothic romance / Evan Hayles Gledhill -- An art form that honors aesthetic and taste : the art of murder and the art of television in Hannibal / Michael Fuchs -- The rise of the showrunner in Hannibal : Bryan Fuller as simultaneous fan author and legitimate auteur / Kyle A. Moody -- Afterword: Dining in-the legacy of Bryan Fuller's Hannibal, or, how Hannibal inspired us to eat better / Nicholas A. Yanes.

Call Number

MWGT 21-2079

ISBN

• 9781476666426
• 1476666423

LCCN

2020057830

OCLC

1232011555

Title

Hannibal for dinner : essays on America's favorite cannibal on television / edited by Kyle A. Moody and Nicholas A. Yanes.

Publisher

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Moody, Kyle A., 1983- editor.

Yanes, Nicholas A., 1982- editor.

Research Call Number

MWGT 21-2079