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Plant Horror
Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film
Buch von Angela Tenga (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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This collection explores artistic representations of vegetal life that imperil human life, voicing anxieties about our relationship to other life forms with which we share the earth. From medieval manuscript illustrations to modern works of science fiction and horror, plants that manifest monstrous agency defy human control, challenge anthropocentric perception, and exact a violent vengeance for our blind and exploitative practices. Plant Horror explores how depictions of monster plants reveal concerns about the viability of our prevailing belief systems and dominant ideologies¿ as well as a deep-seated fear about human vulnerability in an era of deepening ecological crisis. Films discussed include The Day of the Triffids, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Wicker Man, Swamp Thing, and The Happening.
This collection explores artistic representations of vegetal life that imperil human life, voicing anxieties about our relationship to other life forms with which we share the earth. From medieval manuscript illustrations to modern works of science fiction and horror, plants that manifest monstrous agency defy human control, challenge anthropocentric perception, and exact a violent vengeance for our blind and exploitative practices. Plant Horror explores how depictions of monster plants reveal concerns about the viability of our prevailing belief systems and dominant ideologies¿ as well as a deep-seated fear about human vulnerability in an era of deepening ecological crisis. Films discussed include The Day of the Triffids, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Wicker Man, Swamp Thing, and The Happening.
Über den Autor
Dawn Keetley teaches at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She has published on several recent horror TV series as well as on horror films from the 1930s to the present. She is the editor of a collection of essays on The Walking Dead (2014) and is finishing a book on 19th century Boston murderer, Jesse Pomeroy, as well as a co-edited collection on the ecogothic in 19th century America.
Angela Tenga currently teaches courses in literature, history, and popular culture at Florida Institute of Technology. Her research interests include monster studies, representations of crime in fiction, early English literature, and the renewal and revision of the medieval in modern popular culture.

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Zusammenfassung

Explores artistic representations of vegetal life that imperil human life

Explores the way that vegetal threats express human anxieties in art, fiction, and film

Features analysis of The Day of the Triffids, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Wicker Man, Swamp Thing and The Happening

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction: Six Theses on Plant Horror; or, Why Are Plants [...] Keetley.-2. The Pre-cosmic Squiggle: Tendril Excesses in Early Modern Art and Science Fiction [...] Scherer.-3. Seeds of Horror: Dominance and Sacrifice in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Wicker Man, and Children of the Corn.Angela Tenga.-4. The Mandrake's Lethal Cry: Homuncular Plants in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.Keridiana W. Chez.-5. Green Hells: Monstrous Vegetations in Twentieth-Century Representations of Amazonia.Camilo Jaramillo.-6. What We Think about When We Think about Triffids: The Monstrous Vegetal in Post-War British Science Fiction.Graham J. Matthews.-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 [...] E. Anderson.-8. Vegetable Discourses in 1950s US Science Fiction [...] Knee.-9. Sartre and the Roots of Plant Horror
Randy Laist.-10. What Do Plants [...] Farnell.-11. Monstrous Relationalities: The Horrors of Queer Eroticism and "Thingness" in Alan Moore and Stephen Bissette's Swamp [...] Alex McDonald and Dan Vena.-12. "Just a Piece of Wood": Jan Švankmajer's Otesánek and the EcoGothic.Elizabeth Parker.-13. An Inscrutable Malice: The Silencing of Humanity in The Ruins and The Happening.Jericho Williams.-14. The Sense of the Monster Plant.Matthew Hall
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: xxiv
278 S.
14 farbige Illustr.
278 p. 14 illus. in color.
ISBN-13: 9781137570628
ISBN-10: 1137570628
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 978-1-137-57062-8
Ausstattung / Beilage: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Keetley, Dawn
Tenga, Angela
Redaktion: Tenga, Angela
Keetley, Dawn
Herausgeber: Dawn Keetley/Angela Tenga
Auflage: 1st ed. 2016
Hersteller: Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Maße: 216 x 153 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Angela Tenga (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.01.2017
Gewicht: 0,508 kg
Artikel-ID: 108187677
Über den Autor
Dawn Keetley teaches at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She has published on several recent horror TV series as well as on horror films from the 1930s to the present. She is the editor of a collection of essays on The Walking Dead (2014) and is finishing a book on 19th century Boston murderer, Jesse Pomeroy, as well as a co-edited collection on the ecogothic in 19th century America.
Angela Tenga currently teaches courses in literature, history, and popular culture at Florida Institute of Technology. Her research interests include monster studies, representations of crime in fiction, early English literature, and the renewal and revision of the medieval in modern popular culture.

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Zusammenfassung

Explores artistic representations of vegetal life that imperil human life

Explores the way that vegetal threats express human anxieties in art, fiction, and film

Features analysis of The Day of the Triffids, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Wicker Man, Swamp Thing and The Happening

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction: Six Theses on Plant Horror; or, Why Are Plants [...] Keetley.-2. The Pre-cosmic Squiggle: Tendril Excesses in Early Modern Art and Science Fiction [...] Scherer.-3. Seeds of Horror: Dominance and Sacrifice in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Wicker Man, and Children of the Corn.Angela Tenga.-4. The Mandrake's Lethal Cry: Homuncular Plants in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.Keridiana W. Chez.-5. Green Hells: Monstrous Vegetations in Twentieth-Century Representations of Amazonia.Camilo Jaramillo.-6. What We Think about When We Think about Triffids: The Monstrous Vegetal in Post-War British Science Fiction.Graham J. Matthews.-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 [...] E. Anderson.-8. Vegetable Discourses in 1950s US Science Fiction [...] Knee.-9. Sartre and the Roots of Plant Horror
Randy Laist.-10. What Do Plants [...] Farnell.-11. Monstrous Relationalities: The Horrors of Queer Eroticism and "Thingness" in Alan Moore and Stephen Bissette's Swamp [...] Alex McDonald and Dan Vena.-12. "Just a Piece of Wood": Jan Švankmajer's Otesánek and the EcoGothic.Elizabeth Parker.-13. An Inscrutable Malice: The Silencing of Humanity in The Ruins and The Happening.Jericho Williams.-14. The Sense of the Monster Plant.Matthew Hall
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: xxiv
278 S.
14 farbige Illustr.
278 p. 14 illus. in color.
ISBN-13: 9781137570628
ISBN-10: 1137570628
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 978-1-137-57062-8
Ausstattung / Beilage: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Keetley, Dawn
Tenga, Angela
Redaktion: Tenga, Angela
Keetley, Dawn
Herausgeber: Dawn Keetley/Angela Tenga
Auflage: 1st ed. 2016
Hersteller: Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Maße: 216 x 153 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Angela Tenga (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.01.2017
Gewicht: 0,508 kg
Artikel-ID: 108187677
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