Beyond Ecophilia: Edgar Allan Poe and the American Tradition of Ecohorror

Crosby, Sara L.

doi:10.1093/isle/isu080

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“…18). As Sara Crosby (2014) succinctly states, “[h]orror is becoming the environmental norm” (p. 514). Indeed, filmic speculations of eco-horror today collapse into indistinction with the contemporary state of ecological emergency.…”

Section: The Human-monstermentioning

confidence: 99%

No Man’s Land: Mutant Natures in Canadian Eco-Horror Film

Wallin

Sandlin

2021

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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This essay aims to analyze the significance of Canadian “eco-horror” film within the so-called “Anthropocene” era, wherein it functions as a form of nostalgia and vehicle for imagining the liberation of nature from under the yoke of cultural repression. Assuming Canadian director Adam MacDonald’s critically lauded natural horror film Backcountry as its centerpiece, this essay surveys eco-horror’s reversal of heteropatriarchal masculinity and settler thinking by confronting it with a monstrous image of nature wholly distinct from the Canadian mythos of “beneficent” natural world submitted to the will of Man.

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Section: The Human-monstermentioning

confidence: 99%