Dinosaurs ever evolving
Subtitle: the changing face of prehistoric animals in popular culture
By: Allen A. Debus ; foreword by J.D. Lees
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780786499519
Subjects: Dinosaurs in mass media; Dinosaurs in popular culture
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical referenceses and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Perpetuating the Life Through Geological Time Paradigm; title: Sir Humphry Davy's Volcanic Considerations of Life Through Geological Time; title: Popularizing the Life-Through-Time "Paleo-Novel"; title: Henry Robert Knipe: A Forgotten Paleo-Popularizer; title: Dinosaur Extinctions I: When a "dinosaur book" Isn't: Henry Fairfield Osborn's Origin and Evolution of Life (1917); title: Filmic Illustrations of Life Through Geological Time; title: Lovecraft's Paleontological Time Travels; title: Part II: Doomsday Dinosaurs; title: Dinosaur Extinctions II: Volcanoes Presage Environmental Apocalypse; title: Sizing up Radiation's Unnatural Cold War Dangers; title: Nuclear Dragon: Godzilla and the Cold War: 1954; title: Godzilla's Dinosaurian Origins; title: Oxygen Destroyers: When Oceans Die; title: "After and Before": Gorgo's Alternative Adventures; title: Prehistoric Life Spawns an Environmental Movement; title: Beyond the Smog Monster: Godzilla in the Anthropocene; title: Part III: Man and Dinosaur as One; title: Decade of the Dinosaur; title: Dinosaur Extinctions III: Warning from Space: Science Fiction Becomes Scientific; title: Shadow of Our Past: Evolution of the Beast; title: That First Intelligence; title: When Dinosauroids Speak!.