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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade Review'From apes and alligators to arachnids and amphibians, this collection brilliantly maps movies that include animal as sources of fear. It is an original, ambitious and timely contribution to film studies, cultural studies, horror studies and animal studies.'
- Justin D. Edwards, University of Surrey, UK
Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction; Katarina Gregersdotter, Nicklas Hallen and Johan Hoglund 2. A History of Animal Horror Cinema; Katarina Gregersdotter, Nicklas Hallen and Johan Hoglund 3. 'They are a fact of life out here': The Ecocritical Subtexts of Three Early-Twenty-First-Century Aussie Animal Horror Movies; Michael Fuchs. 4. Polluting and Perverting Nature: The Vengeful Animals of Frogs; Jennifer Schell. 5. Consuming Wildlife: Representations of Tourism and Retribution in Australian Animal Horror; Maja Milatovic 6. Oil and the (Geo)Politics of Blood: Towards an Eco-Gothic Critique of Nightwing; John Edgar Browning. 7. America, Down the Toilet: Urban Legends, American Society and Alligator; Craig Ian Mann 8. Re-Education as Exorcism: How a White Dog Challenges the Strategies for Dealing with Racism; Susan Schwertfeger. 9. We Spiders: Spider as the Monster of Modernity in the Big Bug and Nature-on-a-Rampage Film Genres; Niklas Salmose. 10. Concubines and Chameleons, Deconstruction and Consumption in Pu Songling's and Gordon Chan's Painted Skin; Myha Do 11. Frozen, The Grey, and the Possibilities of Posthumanist Horror; Dawn Keetley 12. Anthropomorphism and the Representation of Animals as Adversaries; Katarina Gregersdotter and Nicklas Hallen 13. Simian Horror in Rise and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes; Johan Hoglund Index
