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This book
examines how the iconic character Hannibal Lecter has been revised and redeveloped across different screen media texts.
List of contents
Introduction: Quality Television (TV) Eats Itself: The TV Auteur and the Promoted Fanboy
Naja Later
1. Not Just Another Serial Killer Show: Hannibal, Complexity, and the Televisual Palimpsest
Stacey Abbott
2. Blood in the Moonlight: Hannibal as Queer Noir
EJ Nielsen and Kavita Mudann Finn
3. Afterthoughts on "Queer Cannibals and Deviant Detectives," Inspired by Hannibal Season 3
Jeff Casey
4. Making a Meal of the Law: Hannibal, Taste, and the Limits of Legality
Jason Bainbridge
5. "It’s Only Cannibalism If We’re Equals": Carnivorous Consumption and Liminality in Hannibal
Michael Fuchs and Michael Phillips
6. Tossed Salads and Scrambled Brains: Frasier, Hannibal, and Good Taste in Quality Television
Andrew Lynch
7. Cannibalizing Montage: Slicing, Dicing, and Splicing in Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal
Tara Lomax
8. The Quality Crime Drama in the TVIV Era: Hannibal, True Detective, and Surrealism
Jessica Balanzategui
About the author
Jessica Balanzategui is Lecturer in Cinema and Screen Studies at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. She is the author of The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema (AUP, 2018), the founding editor of Amsterdam University Press’s "Horror and Gothic Media Cultures" series, and editor of Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media.
Naja Later is Academic Tutor in Media and Communications at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. She researches intersections between pop culture and politics, with a focus on superhero and horror genres. She has published papers in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video and Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, and chapters with Rutgers University Press; University of Mississippi Press; and McFarland.
Summary
This book examines how the iconic character Hannibal Lecter has been revised and redeveloped across different screen media texts.
