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Monstrous Nature - Environment and Horror on the Big Screen (Hardcover)
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Monstrous Nature - Environment and Horror on the Big Screen (Hardcover)
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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 between
fear and the natural world opens up possibilities for ecocritical
readings often missing from research on monstrous nature, the
environment, and the horror film. Organized in relation to four
recurring environmental themes in films that construct nature as a
monster-anthropomorphism, human ecology, evolution, and gendered
landscapes-the authors apply ecocritical perspectives to reveal the
multiple ways nature is constructed as monstrous or in which the
natural world itself constructs monsters. This interdisciplinary
approach to film studies fuses cultural, theological, and
scientific critiques to explore when and why nature becomes
monstrous.
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