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  1. Plant horror
    Approaches to the monstrous vegetal in fiction and film
    Contributor: Keetley, Dawn (Publisher); Tenga, Angela (Publisher)
    Published: [2016]; © 2016
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, United Kingdom

    Universitätsbibliothek Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
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    Universitätsbibliothek Passau
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    Contributor: Keetley, Dawn (Publisher); Tenga, Angela (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781137570635
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    RVK Categories: EC 5410 ; AP 53900 ; AP 50300
    Subjects: Culture / Study and teaching; Motion pictures; Film genres; Cultural and Media Studies; Genre; Film Theory; Film; Horror; Ungeheuer; Literatur; Pflanzen <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 278 Seiten), Illustrationen
  2. Plant horror
    Approaches to the monstrous vegetal in fiction and film
    Contributor: Keetley, Dawn (Publisher); Tenga, Angela (Publisher)
    Published: [2016]; © 2016
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, United Kingdom

    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Contributor: Keetley, Dawn (Publisher); Tenga, Angela (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781137570635
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    RVK Categories: EC 5410 ; AP 53900 ; AP 50300
    Subjects: Culture / Study and teaching; Motion pictures; Film genres; Cultural and Media Studies; Genre; Film Theory; Film; Horror; Ungeheuer; Literatur; Pflanzen <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 278 Seiten), Illustrationen
  3. Plant Horror
    Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film
    Contributor: Keetley, Dawn (Herausgeber); Tenga, Angela (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan UK, London ; Springer International Publishing AG, Cham

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    Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel
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    Contributor: Keetley, Dawn (Herausgeber); Tenga, Angela (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781137570635; 1137570636
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2016
    Subjects: Pflanzen <Motiv>; Das Monströse; Science-Fiction; Film genres; Motion pictures; Genre Studies; Film Theory
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIV, 278 Seiten), 14 illus. in color.
  4. Plant horror
    approaches to the monstrous vegetal in fiction and film
    Contributor: Keetley, Dawn (HerausgeberIn); Tenga, Angela (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2016; ©2016
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, [London, England]

    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 --... more

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    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 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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Keetley, Dawn (HerausgeberIn); Tenga, Angela (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781137570635
    RVK Categories: HG 674
    Subjects: Film genres; Horror films; Electronic books
    Scope: 1 online resource (291 pages)