Acknowledgements Introduction: A Matter of Life and Death Lorna Piatti-Farnell (SAE Creative Media Institute, New Zealand) Part I: Historical Echoes and Iconographic Recurrences 1. Poison and Toxicity in 1950s Hollywood Cinema: Bigger Than Life (1956) Wendy Haslem (University of Melbourne, Australia) 2. The Leprous Distilment: Poison and the Film Noir Narrative Robert Singer (CUNY Graduate Center, USA) 3. Roald Dahl's Femme Fatales and Their Weapon of Choice: Poison Rosie Gailor (Queen Mary University of London, UK) 4. The Needle and the Snake: Tracing the Historical Echoes of Cleopatra's Poisons in the Popular Imagination Lorna Piatti-Farnell 5. Killer Fashion: Clothes that Poison in History, Media, and Popular Culture Lisa J. Hackett (University of New England, Australia), Jo Coghlan (University of New England, Australia) and Huw Nolan (University of New England, Australia) 6. Devious Beauty and Deadly Betrayal: Poison as a Multifaceted Symbol in Asian Genres of Cinema Kyoung-suk SUNG (National Research Foundation of Korea, South Korea) Part II: Popular Representations and Evolving Meanings 7.
Constitution Checks, Agency and Dice Rolls: Poison in the Tabletop Role-Playing Space Matthew Thompson (University of Southern Queensland, Australia) 8. Body Transformation and the Cycle of Death and Rebirth: Poison and Scarlet Rot in the Elden Ring Videogame Martin Charvát (Metropolitan University Prague, Czech Republic) and Michaela Fikejzová (Metropolitan University Prague, Czech Republic) 9. Sex, Poison, and Control in Comics: The Evolving Representation of DC's Poison Ivy Carl Wilson ( Independent Scholar, UK) 10. "Even Stopper Death": Harry Potter , Potions, Poisons, and Plants Jenny Wise ( University of New England, Australia) and Lesley McLean (University of New England, Australia) 11. Poison as Allegorical to Loss and Grief in Eiichiro Oda's One Piece Ruairí Kennedy (University of Galway, Ireland) 12. Growing in Nightshade: Toxic Culture and Healing Horror in Netflix's Wednesday Lindsey Scott ( University of Suffolk, UK) Notes on Contributors Index.