Word: huggan
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...film ended, Huggan turned discussion over to the students, some of whom were smiling and grinning while others hid their faces in their hands...
...movie, as I tried to explain in my lecture...deals with the appetite of contemporary consumers," says Huggan, who also calls the movie a "vicious political satire...
...Huggan's entire class may well be intended as just such a "vicious political satire...
When asked why a professor or student should spend a semester studying a peculiarity of human consumption, Huggan says he wanted to explore cannibalism as a metaphor in modern society...
...came up with the idea because I wanted to inquire why cannibal metaphors are so prevalent in contemporary society," Huggan explains. "And also I wanted to examine the status of cannibalism as cultural myth which has been used in the past to justify imperial conquest and more recently has been used as an alibi for the success of modern consumer society...