Brute Force: Animal Horror Movies
Dominic Lennard, "Brute Force: Animal Horror Movies "
English | ISBN: 1438476604 | 2020 | 276 pages | PDF | 6 MB
English | ISBN: 1438476604 | 2020 | 276 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Considers how dangerous beasts in horror films illuminate the human-animal relationship.
It’s always been a wild world, with humans telling stories of killer animals as soon as they could tell stories at all. Movies are an especially popular vehicle for our fascination with fierce creatures. In Brute Force, Dominic Lennard takes a close look at a range of cinematic animal attackers, including killer gorillas, sharks, snakes, bears, wolves, spiders, and even a few dinosaurs. Lennard argues that animal horror is not so much a focused genre as it is an impulse, tapping into age-old fears of becoming prey. At the same time, these films expose conflicts and uncertainties in our current relationship with animals. Movies considered include
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