Monstrous nature : environment and horror on the big screen /
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.