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Dinosaurs ever evolving : the changing face of prehistoric animals in popular culture / Allen A. Debus ; foreword by J.D. Lees.
Van Pelt Library QE861.95 .D34 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Debus, Allen A., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dinosaurs in popular culture.
- Dinosaurs in mass media.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 316 pages ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]
- Summary:
- "As fears of human extinction escalated during the ecological movement of the 1970s, dinosaurs communicated their metaphorical message of extinction, urging us from our destructive path. Using an eclectic variety of examples, this book outlines the three-fold 'evolution' of dinosaurs and other prehistoric monsters in pop culture, from their poorly understood beginnings to the 21st century"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part I Perpetuating the Life Through Geological Time Paradigm 11
- 1 Sir Humphry Davy's Volcanic Considerations of Life Through Geological Time 13
- 2 Popularizing the Life-Through-Time "Paleo-Novel" 25
- 3 Henry Robert Knipe: A Forgotten Paleo-Popularizer 37
- 4 Dinosaur Extinctions I: When a "dinosaur book" Isn't: Henry Fairfield Osborn's Origin andEvolution of Life (1917) 46
- 5 Filmic Illustrations of Life Through Geological Time 64
- 6 Lovecraft's Pale onto logical Time Travels 73
- Part II Doomsday Dinosaurs 85
- 7 Dinosaur Extinctions II: Volcanoes Presage Environmental Apocalypse 88
- 8 Sizing up Radiation's Unnatural Cold War Dangers 99
- 9 Nuclear Dragon: Godzilla and the Cold War-1954 114
- 10 Godzilla's Dinosaurian Origins 127
- 11 Oxygen Destroyers: When Oceans Die 141
- 12 "After and Before": Gorgo's Alternate Adventures 148
- 13 Prehistoric Life Spawns an Environmental Movement 172
- 14 Beyond the Smog Monster: Godzilla in the Anthropocene 187
- Part III Man and Dinosaur as One 199
- 15 Decade of the Dinosaur 201
- 16 Dinosaur Extinctions III: Warning from Space! Science Fiction Becomes Scientific 213
- 17 Shadow of Our Past: Evolution of the Beast 229
- 18 That First Intelligence 244
- 19 When Dinosauroids Speak! 255.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780786499519
- 0786499516
- OCLC:
- 932578554
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