• ‘A Serious Man Versus Nature Moment': Aquatic Monsters, Deep Time, and Climate Change

    Author(s):
    Michael Fuchs (see profile)
    Date:
    2022
    Subject(s):
    Horror films, Horror films, Climate fiction, Monsters
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Ecohorror, Horror
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/fp29-0188
    Abstract:
    This article suggests that the megalodons, American alligators, and bull sharks featured in The Meg (2018), Crawl (2019), and Deep Blue Sea 3 (2020) expand the temporal scope of the narratives to geological time. In so doing, these films not only expose the incongruity of geological with historical time but also grapple with the representational dilemma of conveying slow-moving disasters that unfold in a nonhuman temporal order.
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    https://www.doi.org/10.18278/pcr.33.1.5
    Publisher:
    Policy Studies Organization
    Pub. Date:
    2022-3-8
    Journal:
    Popular Culture Review
    Volume:
    33
    Issue:
    1
    Page Range:
    103 - 136
    ISSN:
    1060-8125
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    5 months ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial

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