Monster Cinema / / Barry Keith Grant.
Monster Cinema introduces readers to a vast menagerie of movie monsters. Some are gigantic, like King Kong or the kaiju in Pacific Rim, while others are microscopic. Some monsters appear uncannily human, from serial killers like Norman Bates to the pod people in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. And o...
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Grant, Barry Keith, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Monster Cinema / Barry Keith Grant. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource (160 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 1. Meeting Movie Monsters -- 2. Human Monsters -- 3. Natural Monsters -- 4. Supernatural Monsters -- Acknowledgments -- Further Reading -- Works Cited -- Index -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Monster Cinema introduces readers to a vast menagerie of movie monsters. Some are gigantic, like King Kong or the kaiju in Pacific Rim, while others are microscopic. Some monsters appear uncannily human, from serial killers like Norman Bates to the pod people in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. And of course, other movie monsters like demons, ghosts, vampires, and witches emerge from long folklore traditions. Film expert Barry Keith Grant considers what each type of movie monster reveals about what it means to be human and how we regard the world. Armed with an encyclopedic knowledge of film history, Grant presents us with an eclectic array of monster movies, from Nosferatu to Get Out. As he discovers, although monster movies might claim to be about Them!, they are really about the capacity for horror that lurks within each of us. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Monsters in motion pictures. PERFORMING ARTS / General. bisacsh Get Out. Invasion of the Body Snatchers. King Kong. Norman Bates. Nosferatu. Pacific Rim. Them!, them, invasion, horror. cinema. demons. film. ghosts. human. kaiju. monster. natural. popular culture. serial killers. supernatural. vampires. witches. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110666083 https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813588827?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813588827 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780813588827.jpg |
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