Table of Contents

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction; Katarina Gregersdotter, Nicklas Hallen and Johan Hoglund 2. A History of Animal Horror Cinema; Katarina Gregersdotter, Nicklas Hallen and Johan Hoglund 3. 'They are a fact of life out here': The Ecocritical Subtexts of Three Early-Twenty-First-Century Aussie Animal Horror Movies; Michael Fuchs. 4. Polluting and Perverting Nature: The Vengeful Animals of Frogs; Jennifer Schell. 5. Consuming Wildlife: Representations of Tourism and Retribution in Australian Animal Horror; Maja Milatovic 6. Oil and the (Geo)Politics of Blood: Towards an Eco-Gothic Critique of Nightwing; John Edgar Browning. 7. America, Down the Toilet: Urban Legends, American Society and Alligator; Craig Ian Mann 8. Re-Education as Exorcism: How a White Dog Challenges the Strategies for Dealing with Racism; Susan Schwertfeger. 9. We Spiders: Spider as the Monster of Modernity in the Big Bug and Nature-on-a-Rampage Film Genres; Niklas Salmose. 10. Concubines and Chameleons, Deconstruction and Consumption in Pu Songling's and Gordon Chan's Painted Skin; Myha Do 11. Frozen, The Grey, and the Possibilities of Posthumanist Horror; Dawn Keetley 12. Anthropomorphism and the Representation of Animals as Adversaries; Katarina Gregersdotter and Nicklas Hallen 13. Simian Horror in Rise and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes; Johan Hoglund Index

About the Author

John Edgar Browning, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Myha T. Do, University of California, Davis, USA Michael Fuchs, University of Graz, Austria Katarina Gregersdotter, Umeå University, Sweden Nicklas Hållén, Umeå University, Sweden Johan Höglund, Linnaeus University, Sweden Dawn Keetley, Lehigh University, USA Craig Ian Mann, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Maja Milatovic, Southern Cross University, Australia Niklas Salmose, Linnaeus University, Sweden Jennifer Schell, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA Susanne Schwertfeger, Umtrieb-Gallery Kiel, Germany

Reviews

'From apes and alligators to arachnids and amphibians, this collection brilliantly maps movies that include animal as sources of fear. It is an original, ambitious and timely contribution to film studies, cultural studies, horror studies and animal studies.' - Justin D. Edwards, University of Surrey, UK