The Art of Tasting Corpses: The Conceptual Metaphor of Consumption in 'Hannibal'

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dc.contributor.author Schwegler-Castañer, Astrid
dc.date.accessioned 2025-01-24T07:02:51Z
dc.date.available 2025-01-24T07:02:51Z
dc.identifier.citation Schwegler-Castañer, A. (2018). The Art of Tasting Corpses: The Conceptual Metaphor of Consumption in 'Hannibal'. Continuum-Journal Of Media & Cultural Studies, 32(5), 611-628
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/11201/167881
dc.description.abstract [eng] The figure of the cannibal has often been symptomatic of a society in crisis with its consumer system. By placing human beings in the same category as food, it highlights the hidden, or ignored, problems of food production and consumption. This essay will argue that the television series Hannibal (2013-2015) precisely plays with the features of cannibalism and of the serial killer fiction tradition in order to question US excessive consumer culture. It will explore how foodways and culinary metaphors, particularly those related to taste, are connected to power, social class and moral values through the dietary choices of the characters. Furthermore, the series' use of aesthetics to represent corpses as mouth-watering dishes and breathtaking installation artworks that juxtaposes the horror of violence with beauty creates an effect of the horribly repulsive yet irresistibly appetizing for the audience that hinders the easy and mindless consumption of violence characteristic of traditional serial killing narratives and procedurals.
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dc.format.extent 611-628
dc.publisher Taylor and Francis Group, Routledge
dc.relation.ispartof Continuum-Journal Of Media & Cultural Studies, 2018, vol. 32, num.5, p. 611-628
dc.subject.classification 80 - Qüestions generals de la lingüística i la literatura. Filologia
dc.subject.other 80 - General questions relating to both linguistics and literature. Philology
dc.title The Art of Tasting Corpses: The Conceptual Metaphor of Consumption in 'Hannibal'
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dc.date.updated 2025-01-24T07:02:51Z
dc.subject.keywords food studies
dc.subject.keywords cannibalism
dc.subject.keywords CMT
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dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2018.1499874


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