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020 $a9780786499519 (softcover : alk. paper)
020 $a0786499516 (softcover : alk. paper)
020 $z9781476624327 (ebook)
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035 $a(OCoLC)932578554
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050 00 $aQE861.95$b.D34 2016
082 00 $a567.9$223
100 1 $aDebus, Allen A.
245 10 $aDinosaurs ever evolving :$bthe changing face of prehistoric animals in popular culture /$cAllen A. Debus ; foreword by J.D. Lees.
264 1 $aJefferson, North Carolina :$bMcFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,$c[2016]
264 4 $c℗♭2016
300 $aviii, 316 pages:$billustrations ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"As fears of human extinction escalated during the ecological movement of the 1970s, dinosaurs communicated their metaphorical message of extinction, urging us from our destructive path. Using an eclectic variety of examples, this book outlines the three-fold 'evolution' of dinosaurs and other prehistoric monsters in pop culture, from their poorly understood beginnings to the 21st century"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 311-312) and index.
505 0 $aPart I: Perpetuating the Life Through Geological Time Paradigm -- Sir Humphry Davy's Volcanic Considerations of Life Through Geological Time -- Popularizing the Life-Through-Time "Paleo-Novel" -- Henry Robert Knipe: A Forgotten Paleo-Popularizer -- Dinosaur Extinctions I: When a "dinosaur book" Isn't: Henry Fairfield Osborn's Origin and Evolution of Life (1917) -- Filmic Illustrations of Life Through Geological Time -- Lovecraft's Paleontological Time Travels -- Part II: Doomsday Dinosaurs -- Dinosaur Extinctions II: Volcanoes Presage Environmental Apocalypse -- Sizing up Radiation's Unnatural Cold War Dangers -- Nuclear Dragon: Godzilla and the Cold War: 1954 -- Godzilla's Dinosaurian Origins -- Oxygen Destroyers: When Oceans Die -- "After and Before": Gorgo's Alternative Adventures -- Prehistoric Life Spawns an Environmental Movement -- Beyond the Smog Monster: Godzilla in the Anthropocene -- Part III: Man and Dinosaur as One -- Decade of the Dinosaur -- Dinosaur Extinctions III: Warning from Space: Science Fiction Becomes Scientific -- Shadow of Our Past: Evolution of the Beast -- That First Intelligence -- When Dinosauroids Speak.
650 0 $aDinosaurs in popular culture.
650 0 $aDinosaurs in mass media.
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