Spectres of War in Cannibal Holocaust

Tür:

Kitap Bölümü

Yazar:

Calum Waddell

Yayın yılı:

2016

Yayıncı:

Liverpool University Press

Dil:

en

This chapter talks about Ruggero Deodato's <italic>Cannibal Holocaust</italic> as the first of the Italian flesh-eating films since <italic>Man from Deep River</italic> that was shot in the same area of Leticia, Columbia in which its story is set. It mentions <italic>Cannibal Ferox</italic>, a film that drew on cocaine trafficking and was inspired by the actual narcotics trade within Colombia and specifically Leticia's role as a trading port. It also examines the US theatrical poster for <italic>Cannibal Holocaust</italic>, which boasted that the production was actually filmed in the Amazon jungles. The chapter analyzes the use of a legitimate location with illegitimate representations of their inhabitants that allowed <italic>Cannibal Holocaust</italic> to ground its own fake-documentary in a neorealist sense. It discusses how <italic>Cannibal Holocaust</italic> touches on thematic ideas that would have been better suited to a Southeast Asian locale.

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