Animal Horror Cinema: Genre, History and Criticism

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-18
A History of Animal Horror Cinema....Pages 19-36
‘They are a fact of life out here’: The Ecocritical Subtexts of Three Early-Twenty-First-Century Aussie Animal Horror Movies....Pages 37-57
Polluting and Perverting Nature: The Vengeful Animals of Frogs ....Pages 58-75
Consuming Wildlife: Representations of Tourism and Retribution in Australian Animal Horror....Pages 76-93
Oil and the (Geo)Politics of Blood: Towards an Eco-Gothic Critique of Nightwing ....Pages 94-109
America, Down the Toilet: Urban Legends, American Society and Alligator ....Pages 110-125
Re-Education as Exorcism: How a White Dog Challenges the Strategies for Dealing with Racism....Pages 126-145
We Spiders: Spider as the Monster of Modernity in the Big Bug and Nature-on-a-Rampage Film Genres....Pages 146-167
Concubines and Chameleons: Deconstruction and Consumption in Pu Songling’s and Gordon Chan’s Painted Skin ....Pages 168-186
 Frozen, The Grey, and the Possibilities of Posthumanist Horror....Pages 187-205
Anthropomorphism and the Representation of Animals as Adversaries....Pages 206-223
Simian Horror in Rise and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes ....Pages 224-239
Back Matter....Pages 240-248