Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Hors d'Oeuvre Kyle A. Moody and Nicholas A. Yanes 1 Giving Voice to the Unmentionable: How Hannibal Lecter Uses Bodies in the Television Series Hannibal Lisa Rufus 7 My Darling Cannibal: The Mechanics of Perverse Allegiance in Hannibal Kirsty Worrow 26 Empathy for the Audience: Hannibal, the Fannibals and What Happens When a Show Takes Its Fandom Seriously Nicole Michaud Wild 47 Interview: Tom de Ville Nicholas A. Yanes 66 Bodies That Change: Transformation, Body Dysmorphia and the Malleability of Identity in Bryan Fuller's Hannibal Samantha McLaren 71 Cannibalizing Hannibal: The Horrific and Appetizing Rewriting of Hannibal Mythology Naja Later 89 "If I saw you every day, forever, I'd remember this time": Deconstructing Gender Performance and Heteronormativity Through Adaptation Megan Fowler 106 Go with the Flow: Will Graham and Liminality in Bryan Fuller's Hannibal Lorianne Reuser 121 Interview: Nick Antosca Nicholas A. Yanes 136 Eating Exquisite Corpses and Drinking New Wine: The Chesapeake Ripper as the Authentic Surreal Murderer Vittoria Lion 139 Food Culture in Hannibal Megan McAllister 163 Matchless in His Irony: Divinity and the Aesthetics of Death in Bryan Fuller's Hannibal Anamarija Horvat 170 Interview: Martha De Laurentiis Nicholas A. Yanes 189 It's a Matter of Taste: Bourdieu and the Impeccably Mannered Anthropophagite Sarah Cleary 196 Stranger in a Strange Land: Hannibal as an Adaptation of Stoker's and Browning's Dracula Simon Bacon 213 Pygmalion of a Broken Mind: Physical and Mental Desire in Will Graham and Hannibal Lecter's Relationship Olimpia Calì 232 Gender/Animal Suits: Adapting Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs to NBC's Hannibal Evelyn Deshane 243 Queer(y)ing Adaptation: Bryan Fuller's Hannibal as Slash Fiction Gothic Romance Evan Hayles Gledhill 259 An Art Form That Honors Aesthetic and Taste: The Art of Murder and the Art of Television in Hannibal Michael Fuchs 278 The Rise of the Showrunner in Hannibal: Bryan Fuller as Simultaneous Fan Author and Legitimate Auteur Kyle A. Moody 299 Afterword: Dining In—The Legacy of Bryan Fuller's Hannibal, or, How Hannibal Inspired Us to Eat Better Nicholas A. Yanes 311 About the Contributors 315 Index 319