Showtime for Cannibals
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Showtime for Cannibals
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S0869-54150000392-4-1
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The article discusses cinematographic representations of cannibalism: from the first screen cannibals in silent films to the post-apocalyptic cannibal of the present. The interpretations of this theme that had been set at the dawn of cinema - metaphorical cannibalism (Greed), survival cannibalism (Gold Rush), colonial cannibalism (West of Zanzibar), deferred cannibalism, and cannibalism per se (Sweeney Todd) - in many ways defined the framework for further on-screen life of cannibals. The author examines different paradigms of cannibalism in movies and various conversions of the cannibal which is assuming an international and universalistic shape in contemporary cinema.
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cannibalism, cinema, cannibal film, survival film, colonial cannibal, postapocalyptic cannibal, metaphor of cannibalism
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