Forbidden Pleasures: Queerness and Cannibalism in Film and Television
Description:
The trope of the queer cannibal recurs throughout fiction as well as film and television. While literature scholars such as David Bergman and Caleb Crain have written about this figure in American literature, the queer cannibal remains unstudied in the realm of media studies. This thesis analyzes six media texts that feature queer cannibals: Hannibal (2013-2015), Ravenous (1999), The Terror (2018), Yellowjackets (2021-), Raw (2016), and Bones and All (2022). Through these analyses, this thesis …
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Date:
July 2023
Creator:
Hadley, Kristen M.
Partner:
UNT Libraries