Format:
Online-Ressource (263 p)
ISBN:
9781137496386
Content:
This first full-length scholarly study about animal horror cinema defines the popular subgenre and describes its origin and history in the West. The chapters explore a variety of animal horror films from a number of different perspectives. This is an indispensable study for students and scholars of cinema, horror and animal studies
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 A History of Animal Horror Cinema; 3 'They are a fact of life out here': The Ecocritical Subtexts of Three Early-Twenty-First-Century Aussie Animal Horror Movies; 4 Polluting and Perverting Nature: The Vengeful Animals of Frogs; 5 Consuming Wildlife: Representations of Tourism and Retribution in Australian Animal Horror ; 6 Oil and the (Geo)Politics of Blood: Towards an Eco-Gothic Critique of Nightwing; 7 America, Down the Toilet: Urban Legends, American Society and Alligator
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8 Re-Education as Exorcism: How a White Dog Challenges the Strategies for Dealing with Racism9 We Spiders: Spider as the Monster of Modernity in the Big Bug and Nature-on-a-Rampage Film Genres; 10 Concubines and Chameleons: Deconstruction and Consumption in Pu Songling's and Gordon Chan's Painted Skin; 11 Frozen, The Grey, and the Possibilities of Posthumanist Horror; 12 Anthropomorphism and the Representation of Animals as Adversaries; 13 Simian Horror in Rise and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes; Index
Additional Edition:
9781137496393
Additional Edition:
9781137496386
Additional Edition:
Print version Animal Horror Cinema : Genre, History and Criticism
Language:
English
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