Meat is Murder!: New Edition: An Illustrated Guide to Cannibal Culture

by Mikita Brottman

Meat Is Murder! is the best-selling study of cannibals in both real life and cinema, with illustrated reports on cannibal killers such as Ed Gein, Albert Fish, Andrei Chikatilo and Issei Sagawa, and reviews of cannibal movies such as Cannibal Holocaust and Cannibal Ferox. ? This brand new, updated and expanded edition includes an extra chapter on Flesh-Eating Zombies in horror movies, plus a new, full-color photo section of extreme screen gore, and reports on the very latest cannibal movies including Hannibal, the sequel to Silence of the Lambs . ??

Genres: Horror, True Crime, Nonfiction, Film

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Mikita Brottman (born 30 October 1966) is a British scholar, psychoanalyst, author and cultural critic known for her psychological readings of the dark and pathological elements of contemporary culture. She received a D.Phil in English Language and Literature from Oxford University, was a Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University, and was Chair of the program in Engaged Humanities with an emphasis in Depth Psychology at the Pacifica Graduate Institute from 2008 to 2010. She currently teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Brottman's articles and case studies have appeared in Film Quarterly, The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, New Literary History, and American Imago. She has written influentially on horror films, critical theory, reading, psychoanalysis, and the work of the American folklorist, Gershon Legman.

Brottman also writes for mainstream and counterculture journals and magazines. Her work has appeared in such diverse venues as The Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Bad Subjects, The Fortean Times, Headpress, and Popmatters, where her column, "Sub Rosa", ran from January 2007 to July 2009. Her essays have also appeared in a number of books and anthologies.

She is the author of the cult film books Meat is Murder and Hollywood Hex, as well as books on psychoanalysis, critical theory and contemporary popular culture. Her most recent book, The Solitary Vice: Against Reading (Counterpoint, 2008) was selected as one of the Best Books of 2008 by Publishers Weekly, who said: "Sharp, whimsical and impassioned, Brottman's look at the pleasures and perils of compulsive reading is itself compulsively readable and will connect with any book lover."

Brottman's partner is the film critic David Sterritt.

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Reviews

[Michael X · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pleasant little book about everything cannibalistic. Includes a movie guide and a run down of the most notorious true instances of cannibalism. Although, it seems that the editors did not care to go over the texts and pictures before it when to the press: there are typos and inconsistant information here and there.

[Mizuki · Rating 5 out of 5]

It’s the best book on cannibalism I’ve ever read! It got cannibal killers, cannibal customs around the world in both present and the past, cannibalism in movies/snuff movies etc! And with many many bloody horrifying pictures!!!

[reader · Rating 5 out of 5]

Highly recommend this book. Very detailed and critical account of cannibalism in and off screen, deploying psychological, historical and literary approaches in an effort to understand to the culturally transcendent taboo which is cannibalism, as a symbol and its meaning to us. Very rich as an academic resource, or for the cannibalistic voyageur

[Seth · Rating 3 out of 5]

For horror film completists, this book focuses on cannibal films. Lots of cross reference material and history on the most influential films in the genre, lots of lesser films are only mentioned in context of their predecessors.

[Cwl · Rating 4 out of 5]

Traverses the cannibal world from genuine rites and tribes to every film with cannibal content and amazingly does not become boring.

[Kelly · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is an interesting book on the cannibal culture, but it reads like a textbook. I did not finish the book. It just didn't hold my interest.