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Animal Horror Cinema

Genre, History and Criticism

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Editors:
  1. Katarina Gregersdotter

    1. Umeå University, Sweden

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  2. Johan Höglund

    1. Linnaeus University, Sweden

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  3. Nicklas Hållén

    1. Linnaeus University, Sweden
      University of York, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Katarina Gregersdotter, Nicklas Hållén, Johan Höglund
    Pages 1-18

  3. A History of Animal Horror Cinema

    • Katarina Gregersdotter, Nicklas Hållén, Johan Höglund
    Pages 19-36

  4. ‘They are a fact of life out here’: The Ecocritical Subtexts of Three Early-Twenty-First-Century Aussie Animal Horror Movies

    • Michael Fuchs
    Pages 37-57

  5. Polluting and Perverting Nature: The Vengeful Animals of Frogs

    • Jennifer Schell
    Pages 58-75

  6. Consuming Wildlife: Representations of Tourism and Retribution in Australian Animal Horror

    • Maja Milatovic
    Pages 76-93

  7. Oil and the (Geo)Politics of Blood: Towards an Eco-Gothic Critique of Nightwing

    • John Edgar Browning
    Pages 94-109

  8. America, Down the Toilet: Urban Legends, American Society and Alligator

    • Craig Ian Mann
    Pages 110-125

  9. Re-Education as Exorcism: How a White Dog Challenges the Strategies for Dealing with Racism

    • Susanne Schwertfeger
    Pages 126-145

  10. We Spiders: Spider as the Monster of Modernity in the Big Bug and Nature-on-a-Rampage Film Genres

    • Niklas Salmose
    Pages 146-167

  11. Concubines and Chameleons: Deconstruction and Consumption in Pu Songling’s and Gordon Chan’s Painted Skin

    • Myha T. Do
    Pages 168-186

  12. Frozen, The Grey, and the Possibilities of Posthumanist Horror

    • Dawn Keetley
    Pages 187-205

  13. Anthropomorphism and the Representation of Animals as Adversaries

    • Katarina Gregersdotter, Nicklas Hållén
    Pages 206-223

  14. Simian Horror in Rise and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

    • Johan Höglund
    Pages 224-239

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 240-248
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About this book

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.

Reviews

'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

Editors and Affiliations

  • Umeå University, Sweden

    Katarina Gregersdotter

  • Linnaeus University, Sweden

    Johan Höglund, Nicklas Hållén

  • University of York, UK

    Nicklas Hållén

About the editors

John Edgar Browning, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Myha T. Do, University of California, Davis, USA Michael Fuchs, University of Graz, Austria Katarina Gregersdotter, Umeå University, Sweden Nicklas Hållén, Umeå University, Sweden Johan Höglund, Linnaeus University, Sweden Dawn Keetley, Lehigh University, USA Craig Ian Mann, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Maja Milatovic, Southern Cross University, Australia Niklas Salmose, Linnaeus University, Sweden Jennifer Schell, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA Susanne Schwertfeger, Umtrieb-Gallery Kiel, Germany

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Animal Horror Cinema

  • Book Subtitle: Genre, History and Criticism

  • Editors: Katarina Gregersdotter, Johan Höglund, Nicklas Hållén

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137496393

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-49638-6Published: 05 October 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-55349-5Published: 14 February 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-49639-3Published: 22 February 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 248

  • Topics: Film History, Sociology, general, Media Studies, Arts, Screen Studies

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