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Hannibal Lecter: The Honey in the Lion’s Mouth

American Journal of Psychotherapy, 2002
This paper examines the psychopathology of Hannibal Lecter, the fictional killer and cannibal in Thomas Harris's trilogy: Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal from an object relations point of view. The victim of childhood trauma involving the killing of his family and the cannibalization of his baby sister, Lecter suffers from posttraumatic ...
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Three Actors, One Lecter: Constructing Hannibal Through Performance

Film Matters, 2013
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American Gothic: Liminality in Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter Novels

Journal of American Culture, The, 2000
I Liminality refers primarily to the concept of the threshold, the area between two spaces. And that threshold is predominantly associated with provisionality, instability, intermediate forms; what lies between the known and unknown, or "other."1 Noel Carroll writes (by way of Mary Douglas) that "things that are interstitial, that cross the boundaries ...
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The Monster Within: What Fu Manchu and Hannibal Lecter Can Tell Us about Terror and Desire in a Post-9/11 World

Positions, 2004
Since September 11, 2001, the Bush administration has taken on an Orientalist discourse for its foreignpolicy.1 PresidentGeorgeW.Bushhas declared famously that the world is either with the United States (Western civilization, Christian enlightenment, law and order, progress) orwith the terrorists (Oriental barbarism, Islamic feudalism, chaos and ...
L H M Ling
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The Hannibal Lecter Myth: Psychopathy and Verbal Intelligence in the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study

Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 2009
Due to the intriguing nature of the psychopathy construct, it is not surprising that psychopathic characters would appear in popular culture. At times, media portrayals of psychopathic personality are consistent with scholarly research, others times they are not.
Matt Delisi, Michael G Vaughn, Kevin M Beaver   +2 more
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Ist ein weiblicher Hannibal Lecter denkbar?

2013
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Consuming Television’s Golden Age with Hannibal Lecter

Alluvium 21st-Century Writing 21st-Century Approaches, 2016
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The Violence of the Event: Hannibal Lecter in the Lyotardian Sublime

1994
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Hannibal Lecter’s Forms, Formulations, and Transformations

2020
This book examines how the iconic character Hannibal Lecter has been revised and redeveloped across different screen media texts. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter has become one of Western culture’s most influential and enduring models of monstrosity since his emergence in 1981 in Red Dragon, Thomas Harris’ first Lecter book.
Balanzategui, Jessica, Later, Naja
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The Ascent of Hannibal Lecter

2013
This chapter examines the character of Hannibal Lecter. Thomas Harris makes it quickly apparent that Lecter is unlike most other fictional monsters we have encountered: he is well-read, charismatic, and immensely polite. In fact, politeness is one of the key components of his baleful personality: those he considers ‘impolite’ he kills.
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