Don’t eat strange soup! It might have been made with human flesh! This week your favorite ghouls discuss Antonia Bird’s 1999 film, Ravenous! The discussion includes but is not limited to: American Exceptionalism, Manifest Destiny, Wetiko disease, lost Europeans and gender studies!
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Resources:
“Exceptional Zombie Cannibals” – Antonia Bird’s ‘Ravenous’ (1999) and the discourse of American exceptionalism by Olga Ackroyd
http://www.baas.ac.uk/usso/exceptional-zombie-cannibals-antonia-birds-ravenous-1999-and-the-discourse-of-american-exceptionalism/
Ravenous Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenous_(1999_film)
Hungry? 'Ravenous' May Spoil Your Appetite by Dann Gire
Monstrous Nature: Environment and Horror on the Big Screen By Robin L. Murray; Joseph K. Heumann
Carnal Appetites: Foodsexidentities by Elspeth Probyn
Roger Ebert Review of Ravenous
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/ravenous-1999
Why You Should Chew on Ravenous by Luis H.C.
https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3460304/editorial-chew-ravenous/
Wendigo Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendigo
Ravenous Featurette - Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QB2LY6hoXA
Audio Commentary for Ravenous (1999) with Director: Antonia Bird
Unsettling America: Wetiko by Paul Levy
https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/tag/wetiko/
