Krajobraz z rzeźnią w tle. Horror, czyli sztuka mięsa
A Landscape with a Slaughterhouse in the the Background. Horror or the Art of Meat

Summary/Abstract: The presented article reconsiders contemporary Horror in terms of a MEATaphor, that is a metaphor of meat. The article draws on Modern Horror's fascination with such themes as the body, flesh, camality, physicality, monstrosity, mutation, or bio-technology, all of which being, in fact, the representation of meat. Due to its interest in the human body, always treated instrumentally, Modern Horror has been frequently referred to as "meat-horror." The article examines the "meat" content of Modern Horror and the argument is divided into three parts discussing the notions of meat as food, meat as flesh, and meat as the abject female body respectively. The first part is concerned with meat consumption (including human meat) and centres on a number of cannibalistic themes of both explicit and implicit nature. The second part touches on the questions of carnality and sexuality, as well as anatomy and bodily transformations, and generally refers to the sphere of human biology. Finally, the third part concentrates on the images of the female body as the abject territory for both men and women. It evaluates Modern Horror texts from a gender perspective discussing the notion of the monstrous feminine and deconstructing anorexia nervosa.

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