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by William Schoell

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This work offers a critical, colorful and informative examination of different types of monster movies, spanning the silent period to today. Chapter One focuses on dragons, dinosaurs, and other scaly giants from films like 1953's The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, an impressive stop-motion production that ushered in a new era of atomic-spawned monster films. Chapter Two examines "big bug" flicks, beginning with 1954's giant ant-infested Them! Chapter Three focuses on ordinary animals grown to improbable proportions through scientific or sinister experimentation, such as the huge octopus in 1955's It Came from Beneath the Sea. Chapters Four, Five, and Six look at films in which nature goes berserk, and otherwise innocuous animals flock, swarm, hop or run about on a menacingly massive scale, including 1963's The Birds and 1972's Frogs. Finally, Chapter Seven focuses on films featuring beasts that defy easy definition, such as 1958's The Blob and Fiend Without a Face.

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  • Title Creature Features: Nature Turned Nasty in the Movies
  • Author William Schoell
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 214
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McFarland & Company
  • Publication date 2014-05-13
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780786495627 / 0786495626
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.6 in (25.15 x 17.53 x 1.52 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008029408
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.436

About the author

William Schoell is the author of numerous books about the performing arts and pop culture, and the writer of the blog Great Old Movies. He lives in New York.
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