Animal Horror Cinema

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 A History of Animal Horror Cinema

Chapter 3 ‘They are a fact of life out here’: The Ecocritical Subtexts of Three Early-Twenty-First-Century Aussie Animal Horror Movies

Chapter 4 Polluting and Perverting Nature: The Vengeful Animals of Frogs

Chapter 5 Consuming Wildlife: Representations of Tourism and Retribution in Australian Animal Horror

Chapter 7 America, Down the Toilet: Urban Legends, American Society and Alligator

Chapter 8 Re-Education as Exorcism: How a White Dog Challenges the Strategies for Dealing with Racism

Chapter 9 We Spiders: Spider as the Monster of Modernity in the Big Bug and Nature-on-a-Rampage Film Genres

Chapter 10 Concubines and Chameleons: Deconstruction and Consumption in Pu Songling’s and Gordon Chan’s Painted Skin

Chapter 11 Frozen, The Grey , and the Possibilities of Posthumanist Horror

Chapter 12 Anthropomorphism and the Representation of Animals as Adversaries

Chapter 13 Simian Horror in Rise and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes