Kyle A. Moody is an assistant professor of communications media at Fitchburg State University in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. He explores online communities, information sharing practices, user generated content in games and social media, and the convergence culture of information production. Nicholas A. Yanes examines the entertainment industry as an academic and corporate consultant. As a freelance writer he has contributed to CNBCPrime, Casual Connect, GameSauce, Sequart, MGM's Stargate Command, and ScifiPulse.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Hors d'Oeuvre

Kyle A. Moody and Nicholas A. Yanes

Giving Voice to the Unmentionable: How Hannibal Lecter Uses Bodies in the Television Series Hannibal

Lisa Rufus

My Darling Cannibal: The Mechanics of Perverse Allegiance in Hannibal

Kirsty Worrow

Empathy for the Audience: Hannibal, the Fannibals and What Happens When a Show Takes Its Fandom Seriously

Nicole Michaud Wild

Interview: Tom de Ville

Nicholas A. Yanes

Bodies That Change: Transformation, Body Dysmorphia and the Malleability of Identity in Bryan Fuller's Hannibal

Samantha McLaren

Cannibalizing Hannibal: The Horrific and Appetizing Rewriting of Hannibal Mythology

Naja Later

"If I saw you every day, forever, I'd remember this time": Deconstructing Gender Performance and Heteronormativity Through Adaptation

Megan Fowler

Go with the Flow: Will Graham and Liminality in Bryan Fuller's Hannibal

Lorianne Reuser

Interview: Nick Antosca

Nicholas A. Yanes

Eating Exquisite Corpses and Drinking New Wine: The Chesapeake Ripper as the Authentic Surreal Murderer

Vittoria Lion

Food Culture in Hannibal

Megan McAllister

Matchless in His Irony: Divinity and the Aesthetics of Death in Bryan Fuller's Hannibal

Anamarija Horvat

Interview: Martha De Laurentiis

Nicholas A. Yanes

It's a Matter of Taste: Bourdieu and the Impeccably Mannered Anthropophagite

Sarah Cleary

Stranger in a Strange Land: Hannibal as an Adaptation of Stoker's and Browning's Dracula

Simon Bacon

Pygmalion of a Broken Mind: Physical and Mental Desire in Will Graham and Hannibal Lecter's Relationship

Olimpia Calì

Gender/Animal Suits: Adapting Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs to NBC's Hannibal

Evelyn Deshane

Queer(y)ing Adaptation: Bryan Fuller's Hannibal as Slash Fiction Gothic Romance

Evan Hayles Gledhill

An Art Form That Honors Aesthetic and Taste: The Art of Murder and the Art of Television in Hannibal

Michael Fuchs

The Rise of the Showrunner in Hannibal: Bryan Fuller as Simultaneous Fan Author and Legitimate Auteur

Kyle A. Moody

Afterword: Dining In-The Legacy of Bryan Fuller's Hannibal, or, How Hannibal Inspired Us to Eat Better

Nicholas A. Yanes

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