ISBN:
9781137570635
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 278 Seiten)
Paralleltitel:
Plant horror
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Keetley, Dawn Plant Horror : Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film
DDC:
791.4367
Schlagwort(e):
Film genres
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Horror films History and criticism
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Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Literatur
;
Film
;
Horrorfilm
;
Pflanzen
;
Das Monströse
Kurzfassung:
Abstracts -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Six Theses on Plant Horror -- or, Why Are Plants Horrifying? -- Why Are Plants So Horrifying? -- Thesis 1: Plants Embody an Absolute Alterity -- Thesis 2: Plants Lurk in Our Blindspot -- Thesis 3: Plants Menace with Their Wild, Purposeless Growth -- Thesis 4: The Human Harbors an Uncanny Constitutive Vegetal -- Thesis 5: Plants Will Get Their Revenge -- Thesis 6: Plant Horror Marks an Absolute Rupture of the Known -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Chapter 2: The Pre-cosmic Squiggle: Tendril Excesses in Early Modern Art and Science Fiction Cinema -- Defense: Clashes at the Edge of the Arthurian World -- Entanglement: Tendrils and the Tendrilesque in Early Modern Art -- Excesses: The Horrification of the Tendril in Modern Science Fiction Cinema -- Engulfment: Hybridization and Devolution in A Sound of Thunder (2005), The Thing (1982), and The Ruins (2008) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Chapter 3: Seeds of Horror: Sacrifice and Supremacy in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Wicker Man, and Children of the Corn -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- The Wicker Man -- Children of the Corn -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Chapter 4: The Mandrake's Lethal Cry: Homuncular Plants in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets -- The Lethal Cries of Lore -- The Mandrakes of Harry Potter -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Green Hells: Monstrous Vegetations in Twentieth-Century Representations of Amazonia -- Alberto Rangel and Euclides da Cunha: The Founding Partnership -- José Eustasio Rivera's La vorágine and Rómulo Gallego's Canaima -- Echoes of Green Hell on the Screen: Notes on Cannibal Holocaust -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Filmography
Kurzfassung:
Chapter 6: What We Think About When We Think About Triffids: The Monstrous Vegetal in Post-war British Science Fiction -- Conceptualizing Triffid-Thought -- The Landscape Speaks -- Note -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: The Revenge of the Lawn: The Awful Agency of Uncontained Plant Life in Ward Moore's Greener Than You Think and Thomas Disch's The Genocides -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8: Vegetable Discourses in the 1950s US Science Fiction Film -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Chapter 9: Sartre and the Roots of Plant Horror -- Note -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Chapter 10: What Do Plants Want? -- The Botanic Big Other -- Vegetal with a Vengeance -- From Plant Horror to Plant-Sympathy -- Fantasmatics of Future Shock -- We Reap What We Sow -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Chapter 11: Monstrous Relationalities: The Horrors of Queer Eroticism and "Thingness" in Alan Moore and Stephen Bissette's Swamp Thing -- "This Is the Human Race! You Have to Keep Running, or You Get Disqualified!" -- "Does This Mean We're Going Out?" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 12: "Just a Piece of Wood": Jan Švankmajer's Otesánek and the EcoGothic -- Note -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Chapter 13: An Inscrutable Malice: The Silencing of Humanity in The Ruins and The Happening -- Plant Monsters -- Human Mimicry and Penetrating the Body: The Ruins -- Atmospheric Fumes: The Happening -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Chapter 14: The Sense of the Monster Plant -- The Abject Carnival -- The Carnival of the Triffids -- A Hierarchical Nature -- Suspending the Hierarchy -- The Power of Plant Horror -- Uncovering the Power of Apocalypse -- Bibliography -- Index
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