Allen A. Debus

Dinosaurs Ever Evolving

The Changing Face of Prehistoric Animals in Popular Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

From their discovery in the 19th century to the dawn of the Nuclear Age, dinosaurs were seen in popular culture as ambassadors of the geological past and as icons of the "life through time" narrative of evolution. They took on a more foreboding character during the Cold War, serving as a warning to mankind with the advent of the hydrogen bomb. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 616g
• ISBN-13: 9780786499519
• ISBN-10: 0786499516
• Artikelnr.: 45153241

Autorenporträt

Allen A. Debus is a dinosaur sculptor and author of multiple books. He writes regularly for Prehistoric Times, G-Fan, Mad Scientist and Scary Monsters, and was a contributing editor of Fossil News: Journal of Avocational Paleontology. He lives in Hanover Park, Illinois.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Foreword by J.D. Lees Introduction: Pop-Cultural Evolution of the Prehistoric Dino-Monster: Meaning and Metaphor Part I.
Perpetuating the Life Through Geological Time Paradigm One.
Sir Humphry Davy's Volcanic Considerations of Life Through Geological Time Two.
Popularizing the Life-Through-Time "Paleo-Novel" Three.
Henry Robert Knipe: A Forgotten Paleo-Popularizer Four.
Dinosaur Extinctions I: When a "dinosaur book" Isn't: Henry Fairfield Osborn's Origin and Evolution of Life (1917) Five.
Filmic Illustrations of Life Through Geological Time Six.
Lovecraft's Paleontological Time Travels Part II.
Doomsday Dinosaurs Seven.
Dinosaur Extinctions II: Volcanoes Presage Environmental Apocalypse Eight.
Sizing up Radiation's Unnatural Cold War Dangers Nine.
Nuclear Dragon: Godzilla and the Cold War-1954 Ten.
Godzilla's Dinosaurian Origins Eleven.
Oxygen Destroyers: When Oceans Die Twelve.
"After and Before": Gorgo's Alternate Adventures Thirteen.
Prehistoric Life Spawns an Environmental Movement Fourteen.
Beyond the Smog Monster: Godzilla in the Anthropocene Part III.
Man and Dinosaur as One Fifteen.
Decade of the Dinosaur Sixteen.
Dinosaur Extinctions III: Warning from Space! Science Fiction Becomes Scientific Seventeen.
Shadow of Our Past: Evolution of the Beast Eighteen.
That First Intelligence Nineteen.
When Dinosauroids Speak! Epilogue Chapter Notes Bibliography Index