![]() ![]() ![]() Lecter is a highly educated and extensively read aesthete who frames himself and his “work” as part of a grand artistic tradition. Hannibal would be a wholly different show without its bevy of allusions, not least of all because of how the show frames the character of Hannibal Lecter. ![]() The sets create complex intertextual references that both ground the show as Gothic while also pulling from what Anthony Vidler calls “the subgenres of the sublime–the grotesque, the caricature, the fairy story, the melodrama, the ghostly romance, and the horror story” (20). Although wrapped around (though often repurposing) Thomas Harris’s source material, literary tradition absolutely steers the aesthetic of Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal, which ran three seasons and was consistently marked by a production design that was oriented around sublimity. ![]()
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