{"product_id":"hunger-44","title":"Hunger","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Hunger\u003c\/em\u003e (1983) is usually praised for its surface elements: style, soundtrack, erotic cool. What lies beneath that surface is far less comfortable. This book approaches Tony Scott’s debut not as a cult artifact, but as a film that touches on anxiety just before it becomes legible. Set on the brink of the AIDS era, \u003cem\u003eThe Hunger\u003c\/em\u003e reimagines vampirism as a condition defined not by power or immortality, but by bodily failure, dependency, and irreversible decline. What appears to promise transcendence instead produces slow destruction. Time does not stop; it accumulates.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReading the film alongside Whitley Strieber’s novel, contemporary medical discourse, queer cultural history, and older mythic narratives of immortality, punishment, and decay, the author argues that in \u003cem\u003eThe Hunger\u003c\/em\u003e, terror lies in what cannot be explained away: the body's slow betrayal and the impossibility of return. \u003cem\u003eThe Hunger\u003c\/em\u003e’s lasting power is not aesthetic alone, but structural. It understands horror as endurance rather than shock, and as the knowledge that once the body is claimed, there is no exit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57298105499992,"sku":"9781807810580","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/hunger-44","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}