03123nam 22006015 450 991064857190332120240912144901.09783839465691383946569910.1515/9783839465691(CKB)5580000000512296(DE-B1597)641214(DE-B1597)9783839465691(OCoLC)1371573717(MiAaPQ)EBC7192656(ScCtBLL)239b0e2c-bfe6-4df9-9a65-54a5f498a116(Perlego)3763475(oapen)doab97846(EXLCZ)99558000000051229620230228h20232023 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDeath is Served The Serialization of Death and Its Conceptualization Through Food Metaphors in US Literature and Media /Stella CastelliBielefeldtranscript Verlag2023Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2023]©20231 online resource (220 p.)American Culture Studies ;409783837665697 3837665690 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Paradoxical Nature of Death in America -- 1. The Text Devouring the Dead: Edgar Allan Poe and David Lynch's American Gothic -- 2. I am Dead, Yet I Live - The Zombie's Gluttonous Craving for the Living -- 3. Producing the Corpse: Quentin Tarantino's Revenge Narratives -- 4. Ingesting the Corpse: The Cannibal's Taste for Death - American Psycho and Hannibal -- 5. Creator/Destroyer: The Serial Killer as an American Phenomenon -- Conclusion: Death. Again -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- List of IllustrationsThe American cultural imaginary is hungry for death, and thus representations of death are prominently repeated and serialized in US literature and media. Stella Castelli shows how American culture fetishizes death as part of a repetition compulsion which stems from language's inability to satisfactorily grasp death. Taking an intermedial approach, she investigates the forms and tropes born from this preoccupation with death and conceptualizes its imagination alongside an appetite which manifests as repetitive encoding. These metaphors of food consumption provide a hermeneutic framing for analyzing representations of death across American literature and media.SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular CulturebisacshAmerica.Cultural Studies.Film.Literature.Media.Popular Culture.Television.SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.809.933548Castelli Stella, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1350508Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)fndhttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fndDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910648571903321Death is Served3088656UNINA