What's Eating You?

[A] significant contribution to food and horror literature. * Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts *
In its embrace of transgression and grotesque eating, What’s Eating You? ought to encourage anyone interested in the study of food, the environment, or horror to cultivate thoughts about their points of intersection. * ALH Online Review *
Full of delicious little morsels, this collection will be devoured by horror scholars. Covering a smorgasbord of different types of horror, from Zombieland to Le Boucher, and from Human Centipede to Beloved, this collection is a feast that will leave one satisfied and yet wanting more. * Mark Jancovich, Professor, School of Art, Media and American Studies, UEA, UK *
This wide ranging collection of essays illuminates the inventive ways that film and television explore the complex connections among food choices – especially taboo choices – and the monstrous other, the potentially monstrous self, the industrial food system, and inequality in modern society. * Cynthia Baron, Professor of Theatre and Film and co-author of Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation (2014), Bowling Green State University, USA *
The simple yet profound focus on eating draws fresh approaches to a range of films. Some are canonical horror classics (Psycho, Night of the Living Dead, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre) and some cultish favourites (Dumplings, Bad Taste, The Stuff, Blood Feast), and some generally understood as outside the genre but revealing surprising links through the prism of consumption (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Beloved). Aficionados of horror shall find much here to devour. * Murray Leeder, Instructor and Editor of Cinematic Ghosts: Haunting and Spectrality from Silent Cinema to the Digital Era (2015), University of Calgary, Canada *
The adage ‘You are what you eat’ is old news to faculty engaged in Monster Theory who find themselves telling students that our monsters (of whom no small number eat humans) are actually us. Portrayals of food and consumption in horror narratives offer a substantive, albeit little explored avenue of inquiry into the human experience, and Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper are apt to devote a large volume to such a fascinating topic. * John Edgar Browning, Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow, co-editor of Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology, and co-author of Zombie Talk: Culture, History, Politics, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA *
Sharpen your favorite knife, tie your good bib on, and maybe even rig a blindfold from your napkin. This book's a bloody meal, and one you'll not soon forget. * Stephen Graham Jones, author of Mongrels and Professor, University Of Colorado Boulder, USA *