Description
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Creaturely Fear: An Introduction.- Part 1: Animal Traces.- Chapter 2: Surrealism and Creaturely Holocaust Killing in Juraj Herz’s The Cremator.- Chapter 3: Jordan Peele’s Animals: Zoological Horror, Afropessimist Allegory and the Alien Superstar.- Chapter 4: The Animal-Image: On the Uses of Animals in Claire Denis’ Horror Films.- Part 2: The Multi-Sensorial Animal.- Chapter 5: A Horror Multiplied by the Eyes of Every House Fly: Compound Misconceptions and Prejudices on Filmic Insects.- Chapter 6: Killer Wail: Colouring Nonhuman Trauma in Orca: The Killer Whale.- Chapter 7: Sound, Silence, Horror, and the Hare.- Part 3: True Story Monstrosities.- Chapter 8: Animal Agency and Animal Sovereignties in Roar.- Chapter 9: Living with Saltwater Crocodiles: Respectful and Reverential Eco-Fear in Dark Age.- Chapter 10: “The Touch of his Hairy Hand Offended You”: The Epistemological Indeterminacy of Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright.- Part 4: Meat, Sacrifice and Sympathy.- Chapter 11: Made in the Harming: Julia Ducournau’s Raw and the Cutting Continuities of Animal Montage.- Chapter 12: Flesh & Negation: Vegan Aesthetics and Sympathetic Action in David Lynch’s Eraserhead.
