LEADER 02804nam 22004935 450 001 996517757403316 005 20230228020105.0 010 $a3-8394-6569-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9783839465691 035 $a(CKB)5580000000512296 035 $a(DE-B1597)641214 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783839465691 035 $a(EXLCZ)995580000000512296 100 $a20230228h20232023 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDeath is Served $eThe Serialization of Death and Its Conceptualization Through Food Metaphors in US Literature and Media /$fStella Castelli 210 1$aBielefeld : $ctranscript Verlag, $d[2023] 210 4$dİ2023 215 $a1 online resource (220 p.) 225 0 $aAmerican Culture Studies ;$v40 311 $a3-8376-6569-0 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction: The Paradoxical Nature of Death in America -- $t1. The Text Devouring the Dead: Edgar Allan Poe and David Lynch's American Gothic -- $t2. I am Dead, Yet I Live - The Zombie's Gluttonous Craving for the Living -- $t3. Producing the Corpse: Quentin Tarantino's Revenge Narratives -- $t4. Ingesting the Corpse: The Cannibal's Taste for Death - American Psycho and Hannibal -- $t5. Creator/Destroyer: The Serial Killer as an American Phenomenon -- $tConclusion: Death. Again -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tBibliography -- $tList of Illustrations 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture$2bisacsh 610 $aAmerica. 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aFilm. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedia. 610 $aPopular Culture. 610 $aTelevision. 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. 700 $aCastelli$b Stella, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01350508 712 02$aSwiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)$4fnd$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fnd 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996517757403316 996 $aDeath is Served$93088656 997 $aUNISA