| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (134 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Emerald Studies in Death and Culture
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Emerald studies in death and culture.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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, and death. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Monsters in mass media.
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Monsters in mass media. |
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Monsters in popular culture.
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Monsters in popular culture. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Khapaeva, Dina. Man-Eating Monsters : Anthropocentrism and Popular Culture. Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, ©2019 9781787695283 |
| ISBN |
9781787695290 (electronic book) |
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1787695298 (electronic book) |
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9781787695276 (electronic book) |
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1787695271 (electronic book) |
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178769528X |
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9781787695283 |
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