Monstrous Nature: Environment and Horror on the Big Screen

Author:   Robin L. Murray ,  Joseph K. Heumann
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
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Pages:   270
Publication Date:   01 October 2016
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Author:   Robin L. Murray ,  Joseph K. Heumann
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.553kg
ISBN:  

9780803285699


ISBN 10:   0803285698
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   01 October 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations     Acknowledgments     Introduction: Film, Environment, Horror     Part 1: Anthropomorphism and the “Big Bug” Movie 1. The Hellstrom Chronicle and Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo: Anthropomorphizing Nature for Humans     2. “As Beautiful as a Butterfly”? Monstrous Cockroach Nature and the Horror Film     Part 2: Human Ecology and the Horror Film 3. The Earth Bites Back: Vampires and the Ecological Roots of Home     4. Through an Eco-lens of Childhood: Roberto Rossellini’s Germany Year Zero and Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone     Part 3: Evolution and Monstrous Nature 5. Zombie Evolution: A New World with or without Humans     6. Laughter and the Eco-horror Film: The Troma Solution     7. Parasite Evolution in the Eco-horror Film: When the Host Becomes the Monster     Part 4: Gendered Landscapes and Monstrous Bodies 8. Gendering the Cannibal: Bodies and Landscapes in Feminist Cannibal Movies     9. American Mary and Body Modification: Nature and the Art of Change     Conclusion: Monstrous Nature and the New Cli-Fi Cinema     Filmography     Notes     Works Cited     Index    

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From cannibals to cockroaches, Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann fill a major gap in the field with this wide-ranging treatment of horror in ecocinema. Scholarship of this kind contributes tremendously to the expansion of ecocriticism from the study of 'literature' per se to the understanding of how environmental themes, such as anthropomorphism and gendered landscapes, occur in visual culture. -Scott Slovic, coeditor of Numbers and Nerves: Information, Emotion, and Meaning in a World of Data | Compelling... Clear and meticulous. Another tremendous contribution to the field of ecocinema studies. -Stephen Rust, coeditor of Ecocinema Theory and Practice| [Readers] will find in this new book solid scholarship, broad research in the cinematic references necessary to approach the topics, and insightful analysis and juxtaposition of films ... all contributing to our understanding of how 'horror' is among us now in the very real prospects of violent and sudden climate change. -Charles J. Stivale, editor of Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts


Sharply written, fiercely intelligent. -Flick Attack Syfy Channel, horror film aficionados, and film students will no doubt be enthralled by this volume. The book challenges all readers to consider ecological messages, no matter what the mode of presentation. -Patricia Ann Owens, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society From cannibals to cockroaches, Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann fill a major gap in the field with this wide-ranging treatment of horror in ecocinema. Scholarship of this kind contributes tremendously to the expansion of ecocriticism from the study of 'literature' per se to the understanding of how environmental themes, such as anthropomorphism and gendered landscapes, occur in visual culture. -Scott Slovic, coeditor of Numbers and Nerves: Information, Emotion, and Meaning in a World of Data Compelling. . . . Clear and meticulous. Another tremendous contribution to the field of ecocinema studies. -Stephen Rust, coeditor of Ecocinema Theory and Practice [Readers] will find in this new book solid scholarship, broad research in the cinematic references necessary to approach the topics, and insightful analysis and juxtaposition of films . . . all contributing to our understanding of how 'horror' is among us now in the very real prospects of violent and sudden climate change. -Charles J. Stivale, editor of Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts


From cannibals to cockroaches, Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann fill a major gap in the field with this wide-ranging treatment of horror in ecocinema. Scholarship of this kind contributes tremendously to the expansion of ecocriticism from the study of 'literature' per se to the understanding of how environmental themes, such as anthropomorphism and gendered landscapes, occur in visual culture. -Scott Slovic, coeditor of Numbers and Nerves: Information, Emotion, and Meaning in a World of Data | Compelling... Clear and meticulous. Another tremendous contribution to the field of ecocinema studies. -Stephen Rust, coeditor of Ecocinema Theory and Practice| [Readers] will find in this new book solid scholarship, broad research in the cinematic references necessary to approach the topics, and insightful analysis and juxtaposition of films ... all contributing to our understanding of how 'horror' is among us now in the very real prospects of violent and sudden climate change. -Charles J. Stivale, editor of Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts ...the book is full of discussions that engage the mind as they trigger your six- and eight-legged fears. Flick Attack


[Readers] will find in this new book solid scholarship, broad research in the cinematic references necessary to approach the topics, and insightful analysis and juxtaposition of films . . . all contributing to our understanding of how horror is among us now in the very real prospects of violent and sudden climate change. Charles J. Stivale, editor of Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts --Charles J. Stivale (02/25/2016)


Author Information

Robin L. Murray is a professor of English at Eastern Illinois University. Joseph K. Heumann is professor emeritus from the Department of Communication Studies at Eastern Illinois University. Murray and Heumann are coauthors of That’s All Folks?: Ecocritical Readings of American Animated Features (Nebraska, 2011) and Film and Everyday Eco-disasters (Nebraska, 2014).f

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