Animal horror cinema : genre, history and criticism /: genre, history and criticism. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Katarina Gregersdotter, Johan Höglund, Nicklas Hållén.
• Editors: Gregersdotter, Katarina; Höglund, Johan Anders; Hållén, Nicklas
• Contents: A history of animal horror cinema / Katarina Gregersdotter, Nicklas Hållén and Johan Höglund -- "They are a fact of life out here" : the ecocritical subtexts of three early-twenty-first-century Aussie animal horror movies / Michael Fuchs -- Polluting and perverting nature : the vengeful animals of Frogs / Jennifer Schell -- Consuming wildlife : representations of tourism and retribution in Australian animal horror / Maja Milatovic -- Oil and the (geo)politics of blood : towards an eco-gothic critique of Nightwing / John Edgar Browning -- America, down the toilet : urban legends, American society and Alligator / Craig Ian Mann -- Re-education as exorcism : how a white dog challenges the strategies for dealing with racism / Susanne Schwertfeger -- We spiders : spider as the monster of modernity in the big bug and nature-on-a-rampage film genres / Niklas Salmose -- Concubines and chameleons : deconstruction and consumption in Pu Songling's and Gordon Chan's Painted skin / Myha T. Do -- Frozen, The grey, and the possibilities of posthumanist horror / Dawn Keetley -- Anthropomorphism and the representation of animals as adversaries / Katarina Gregersdotter and Nicklas Hållén -- Simian horror in Rise and Dawn of the planet of the apes / Johan Höglund.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 791.43/6164; Horror films -- History and criticism; Animals in motion pictures; PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference; Animals in motion pictures; Horror films; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Social Science -- Media Studies; Art -- General; Performing Arts -- General; Sociology; Media studies; The arts: general issues; Film, TV & radio; Communication; Arts; Motion pictures and television; Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism; Films, cinema; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137496393; 1137496398; 1349553492; 9781349553495
• Related ISBNs: 9781349553495; 9781137496386; 113749638X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 9, 2015).
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