Divided into four thematic sections, What's Eating You? 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?Horror 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 Le Grande Bouffe (1973) and Street Trash (1987) warn, can kill us, and occasionally, as films like The Stuff (1985) and Poultrygeist (2006) illustrate, our food fights back. From Blood Feast (1963) to Sweeney Todd (2007), motion pictures have reminded us that it is an "eat or be eaten" world.

Acknowledgements Introduction I. Let the Eater Beware 1. Death at the Drive-Thru: Fast Food Betrayal in Poultrygeist and Bad Taste Cynthia J. Miller (Emerson College, USA) 2. Let Them Eat Steak: Food and the Family Horror Cycle Hans Staats (Independent Scholar, USA) 3. Much Still Depends on Dinner: Cannibalism and Culinary Carnival in Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Zombieland (2009) Sue Matheson (University College of the North, Canada) 4. Dumplings: The Commodification of Cannibalism and the Liminal Condition of Consumption Alex Pinar and Salvador Murguia (Akita International University, Japan) 5. The Goo in You: Eating (and Being Eaten) in The Stuff A. Bowdoin Van Riper (Independent Scholar, USA) II. Sins of the Flesh 6. Cannibalism as Cultural Critique: Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989) and Thatcherism Thomas Prasch (Washburn University, USA) 7. "The red gums were their own": Food, Flesh, and the Female in Beloved Bart Bishop (is Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, USA) 8. "Do I Look Tasty to You?:" Cannibalism Beyond Speech and the Limits of Food Capitalism in Park's 301/302 Tom Hertweck (University of Nevada, USA) 9. Flesh and Blood in Claude Chabrol's Le boucher Jennifer L. Holm (University of Virginia's College at Wise, USA) 10. A Hunger for Dead Cakes: Visions of Abjection, Scapegoating and the Sin Eater Ralph Beliveau (University of Oklahoma, USA) III. The Extreme End of Consumption 11. Coprophagia as Class and Consumerism in the Human Centipede Films Mark Henderson (Tuskegee University, USA) 12. Eat, Kill ... Love? Courtship, Cannibalism, and Consumption in Hannibal Michael Fuchs (University of Graz, Austria) and Michael Phillips (University of Graz, Austria) 13. Catering to the Cult of Ishtar: Blood Feast Rob Weiner (Texas Tech University, USA) and A. Bowdoin Van Riper (Independent Scholar, USA) 14. From Gourmet to Gore: Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Delicatessen (1991) Karen A. Ritzenhoff (Central Connecticut State University, USA) and Cynthia J. Miller (Emerson College, USA) 15. Who Can Be Eaten? Consuming Animals and Humans in the Cannibal-Savage Horror Film Erin E. Wiegand (Independent Scholar, USA) IV. You Are What You Eat 16. "You Are What Others Think You Eat:" Food, Identity, and Subjectivity in Zombie Protagonist Narratives LuAnne Roth (University of Missouri, USA) 17. From Sugar-Fueled Killer to Grotesque Gourmand: The Culinary Maturation of the Cinematic Serial Killer Mark Bernard (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA) 18. Consumption, Cannibalism, and Corruption in Jorge Michel Grau's Somos lo que hay Stacy Rusnak (Georgia Gwinnett College, USA) 19. Sinister Pastry: British "Meat" Pies in Titus and Sweeny Todd Vivian Halloran (Indiana University, USA) 20. All-Consuming Passions: Vampire Foodways in Contemporary Film and Television Alexandra Frank (Independent Scholar, USA) About the Editors Notes on Contributors Index