{"product_id":"9781501322419","title":"What's Eating You?: Food and Horror on Screen","description":"Divided into four thematic sections, \u003ci\u003eWhat's Eating You?\u003c\/i\u003e explores the deeper significance of food on screen-the ways in which they reflect (or challenge) our deepest fears about consuming and being consumed. Among the questions it asks are: How do these films mock our taboos and unsettle our notions about the human condition? How do they critique our increasing focus on consumption? In what ways do they hold a mirror to our taken-for-granteds about food and humanity, asking if what we eat truly matters?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHorror narratives routinely grasp those questions and spin them into nightmares.  Monstrous \"others” dine on forbidden fare; the tables of consumption are turned, and the consumer becomes the consumed.  Overindulgence, as \u003ci\u003eLe Grande Bouffe\u003c\/i\u003e (1973) and \u003ci\u003eStreet Trash \u003c\/i\u003e(1987) warn, can kill us, and occasionally, as films like \u003ci\u003eThe Stuff\u003c\/i\u003e (1985) and \u003ci\u003ePoultrygeist \u003c\/i\u003e(2006) illustrate, our food fights back.  From \u003ci\u003eBlood Feast \u003c\/i\u003e(1963) to \u003ci\u003eSweeney Todd \u003c\/i\u003e(2007), motion pictures have reminded us that it is an \"eat or be eaten” world.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145212510448,"sku":"9781501322419","price":116.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781501322419_p0.jpg?v=1765233296","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781501322419","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}