What would you do if you were a young woman running through the forest in a red cape, taking cake and wine to your dear grandmother, and were surprised by the big bad wolf? What if you found out that your grandmother was actually a wolf herself? What if the wolf turned out to be a man who could shapeshift? What if the wolf ate you and your grandmother for lunch? What if the wolf loved sausages and maggoty cheese? We are discussing these age-old questions and analyzing the connection between food in horror in the classic fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood, and several modern iterations of the story, so please join us!
Works mentioned
Little Red-cap by By Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (1812)
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2591/2591-h/2591-h.htm#link2H_4_0023
The Company of Wolves by Angela Carter (1979)
The Company of Wolves dir. Neil Jordan (1984)
Wolfland by Tanith Lee (1983)
https://www.sweetstudy.com/files/wolfland.pdf
Red Riding Hood dir. Catherine Hardwicke (2011)
Wolf Border by Sarah Hall (2015)
Mrs Fox by Sarah Hall (2019)