At the Mercy of Gaia: Deep Ecologial Unrest and America’s fall as Nature’s Nation in Kingdom of the Spiders

This paper looks as the animal horror genre as a way to discuss current notions of ecology in relation to a specific American idea of being “Nature’s Nation”. The central work for the discussion is the movie Kingdom of the Spiders (1977) by John Cardos, which depicts how a small Arizona town is tak...

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Main Authors: Jacob Lillemose, Karsten Wind Meyhoff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linköping University Electronic Press 2015-10-01
Series:Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research
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Online Access:https://journal.ep.liu.se/test3212/index.php/CU/article/view/2166