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Robin L. Murray - Monstrous Nature: Environment and Horror on the Big Screen - 9780803285699 - V9780803285699
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Monstrous Nature: Environment and Horror on the Big Screen

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Description for Monstrous Nature: Environment and Horror on the Big Screen Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 22 illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 553.

Godzilla, a traditional natural monster and representation of cinema’s subgenre of natural attack, also provides a cautionary symbol of the dangerous consequences of mistreating the natural world—monstrous nature on the attack. Horror films such as Godzilla invite an exploration of the complexities of a monstrous nature that humanity both creates and embodies.

Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann demonstrate how the horror film and its offshoots can often be understood in relation to a monstrous nature that has evolved either deliberately or by accident and that generates fear in humanity as both character and audience. This connection ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803285699
SKU
V9780803285699
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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99-1

About Robin L. Murray
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

Reviews for Monstrous Nature: Environment and Horror on the Big Screen
“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 ... Read more

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