Description: The Silence of the Lambs: Critical Essays on a Cannibal, Clarice, and a Nice Chianti brings together scholarship from across the disciplines to examine not only themes commonly associated with the film-such as gender, cannibalism, and psychopathy-but also unexpected themes suc...
Brief description: Cynthia J. Miller is a Scholar-in-Residence at Emerson College, USA, and a cultural anthropologist specializing in popular culture and visual media. She serves on the board of the National Popular Culture/American Culture Association, and is Treasurer and Governing Board member of the International Association for Media and History, as well as Director of Communication for the Center for the Study of Film and History. She also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Popular Television. She is the winner of the James Welsh Prize for lifetime achievement in adaptation studies and the Peter C. Rollins prize for a book-length work in popular culture.
Review Quotes: "Overall, though, most of the essays in this book have valuable insights to offer; even readers well steeped in the film and the critical tradition surrounding it will learn something they did not already know, or be provoked to think about the film from a new perspective-- or both." --Journal of American Culture