Animal Horror Cinema: Genre, History and Criticism by Katarina Gregersdotter

Animal Horror Cinema: Genre, History and Criticism Reviews

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  Mr. Galahad

  Resounding meh.
  
  There are some interesting texts in here but for the most part, it´s quite reductive without offering much insight on the topic of animal horror. It´s a shame that the horror genre is academically so looked down upon that most texts focussing on it try to create relevance in connecting it to race relations or feminism.
  While these subjects can be analyzed through the medium of horror there is so much more in this genre that just gets ignored. Also, most of the analyses on the named subjects are extremely basic without offering any insights relevant to the field of animal studies itself.
  
  Maja Milatovic's text Consuming Wildlife stands out the most in this regard. Nearly every page is littered with self-hatred regarding Whiteness.
  
  "The fact that Peter spent two thousand dollars on camping gear reveals his materialism and situatedness in a capitalist culture. His white male entitlement is thus set against a background of material wealth."
  "The entitlement of white tourists, their material privileges, and their conceptualization of wilderness in Australian animal horror are all inherently related to histories of colonization."
  "the presence of white bodies is connected to invasion, theft, murder, and domination."
  
  Like I ain´t white maybe I am not the target audience for this, but the texts should be mostly focussed on ANIMAL Horror Cinema. Instead, I sit here reading about a bunch of people basically self-flogging themselves in front of me because of their skin color.