The Dinosaur Filmography

The Dinosaur Filmography
Author: Mark F. Berry
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2015-08-31
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476606749

From classics like King Kong, to beloved B-movies like The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, to blockbusters like Jurassic Park, it's easy to see that filmmakers and audiences alike love to see dinosaurs on the screen. This comprehensive filmography, arranged alphabetically by title, contains entries that include basic facts (year of release, country of origin, studio, and running time), followed by a concise plot summary, the author's critical commentary, information on the production and the people behind it, and secrets of the often-ingenious special effects. Three useful appendices feature films with minor dinosaur content, planned but unfinished dinosaur movies, and the quasi-dinosaurs of Toho Studios. To be included, a movie must depict one or more representations of a "prehistoric reptile." Inaccurate portrayals are included, as long as the intent is to represent a real or fictional dinosaur. Not eligible are films featuring prehistoric mammals, prehistoric humans or humanoids, and beasts of mythology--unless, of course, the movie also has a dinosaur.

Jurassic Classics

Jurassic Classics
Author: Donald F. Glut
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2001-01-30
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780786462469

Contains essays which cover a variety of topics about paleontology and dinosaurs.

Spinegrinder

Spinegrinder
Author: Clive Davies
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Total Pages: 1368
Release: 2015-03-06
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1909394068

First came video and more recently high definition home entertainment, through to the internet with its streaming videos and not strictly legal peer-to-peer capabilities. With so many sources available, today’s fan of horror and exploitation movies isn’t necessarily educated on paths well-trodden — Universal classics, 1950s monster movies, Hammer — as once they were. They may not even be born and bred on DAWN OF THE DEAD. In fact, anyone with a bit of technical savvy (quickly becoming second nature for the born-clicking generation) may be viewing MYSTICS IN BALI and S.S. EXPERIMENT CAMP long before ever hearing of Bela Lugosi or watching a movie directed by Dario Argento. In this world, H.G. Lewis, so-called “godfather of gore,” carries the same stripes as Alfred Hitchcock, “master of suspense.” SPINEGRINDER is one man’s ambitious, exhaustive and utterly obsessive attempt to make sense of over a century of exploitation and cult cinema, of a sort that most critics won’t care to write about. One opinion; 8,000 reviews (or thereabouts.

Prehistoric Humans in Film and Television

Prehistoric Humans in Film and Television
Author: Michael Klossner
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2015-01-09
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476609144

From the early days of the movies, "cavemen" have been a popular subject for filmmakers--not surprisingly, since the birth of cinema occurred only a few decades after the earliest scientific studies of prehistoric man. Filmmakers, however, were not constrained by the emerging science; instead they most often took a comedic look at prehistory, a trend that continued throughout the 20th century. Prehistoric humans also populated adventure-fantasy films, with the original One Million B.C. (1940) leading the charge. Documentaries were also made, but it was not until the 1970s that accurate film accounts of prehistoric humans finally emerged. This exhaustive work provides detailed accounts of 581 film and television productions that feature depictions of human prehistory. Included are dramas and comedies set in human prehistory; documentaries; and films and television shows in which prehistoric people somehow exist in historical periods--from the advent of civilization up to the present--or in extraterrestrial settings. Each entry includes full filmographic data, including year of release, running time, production personnel, cast information, and format. A description of each film provides background on the prehistoric elements. Contemporary critical commentary is included for many of the works.

Dinosaur Valley Girls"

Dinosaur Valley Girls
Author: Donald F Glut
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-11-04
Genre:
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THE BEAUTIES AND THE BEASTS-AND THE MAN WHO FELL THROUGH A MILLION YEARS TO LAND AMONG THEM BOTH! Finally available! The long-out-of-print story that inspired the famous cult film of the same name! "I grew up on Edgar Rice Burroughs when he was still writing new Tarzan and John Carter books. I loved this story, and if Burroughs is your cup of tea, you will love it, too." -Forrest J Ackerman Dinosaur Valley Girls is a fantasy spiced with comedy, telling the tale of Tony Markham, magically zapped across time to a mythical valley populated by sexy cavewomen, brutish cavemen and, of course, dinosaurs. In this book you will meet: Tony Markham-To meet the woman of his dreams...he had to enter to enter a barely-survivable nightmare world. Beeg-Mak-From the moment he met the man from the future, he knew they were destined to be mortal enemies. The Cavemen-A band of cruel brutes, to whom women were fit only for sex and drudgery. Hea-Thor-A mighty warrior, she had pledged to help him return to his world...even though she knew another woman's arms awaited him. The Dinosaur Valley Girls-Repulsed by the crude, violent ways of the Cavemen, they found sanctuary in a hidden cavern deep within the valley. Murderous Dinosaurs-Reptilian monstrosities, they were feared by even the most savage predators who roamed the dawn-age jungles. "Campy and unpretentious ... Yet its precise lack of seriousness is what makes the story enjoyable. Dinosaur Valley Girls is not without its comedic moments-especially the scene where the cavemen dance with a straw effigy of one of the cavewomen. It gets the job done." -Buzzy.com Based on Glut's original uncut version of the movie, this new edition of Dinosaur Valley Girls includes never-filmed scenes from, and scenes entirely left out of, the screenplay

Best New Horror

Best New Horror
Author: Stephen Jones
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 633
Release: 2014-11-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1632202395

Best New Horror combines dozens of the best and grisliest short stories of today. For twenty-five years this series has been published in the United Kingdom as The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, and now comes to the US to delight and terrify thriller enthusiasts. This has been the world’s leading annual anthology dedicated solely to showcasing the best in contemporary horror fiction. This newest volume offers outstanding new writing by masters of the genre, such as Joan Aiken, Peter Atkins, Ramsey Campbell, Christopher Fowler, Joe R. Lansdale, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Robert Silverberg, Michael Marshall Smith, Evangeline Walton, and many others! Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Mr. Skin's Skincyclopedia

Mr. Skin's Skincyclopedia
Author: Mr. Skin
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 692
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780312331443

Cult hero, radio personality, and internet maven, Mr. Skin has penned the essential guide to celebrity nudity in a combination of hard, reliable data and hilarious, captivating entertainment.

Kong, Godzilla and the Living Earth

Kong, Godzilla and the Living Earth
Author: Allen A. Debus
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2022-06-09
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476646538

During the 2010s, science fiction's immortal adversaries King Kong and Godzilla, representing our conflicts per Carl Sagan's "dream dragons" analogy, made comebacks in American cinema. The blockbuster Kaiju resurged onto the screen, depicting these protectors of an Earth plagued by mankind's hubris and folly. With Earth's future hanging in the balance, their climactic 2021 staging settled a score between the two giant monsters, resolving Toho's classic 1963 film King Kong vs. Godzilla. As formidable creatures emerging from Time's Tomb on Mother Earth, metaphorical Kong and Godzilla are considered here in light of new millennial environmentalism's stark reality. This book, nostalgic in tone, explores the meaning of Kong and Godzilla as planetary saviors--titanic protectors of a theoretical "living Earth" Gaia--defending the globe from a prehistoric plague of adversaries.

The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film

The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film
Author: R. G. Young
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 1028
Release: 2000
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781557832696

Thirty-five years in the making, and destined to be the last word in fanta-film references! This incredible 1,017-page resource provides vital credits on over 9,000 films (1896-1999) of horror, fantasy, mystery, science fiction, heavy melodrama, and film noir. Comprehensive cast lists include: directors, writers, cinematographers, and composers. Also includes plot synopses, critiques, re-title/translation information, running times, photographs, and several cross-referenced indexes (by artist, year, song, etc.). Paperback.

The World of Dinosaurs

The World of Dinosaurs
Author: Mark A. Norell
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2019-03-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 022662272X

“The ultimate dino tour.”—Library Journal, Best Reference 2019 “Perhaps the easiest way to glimpse . . . all this new knowledge is to leaf through Norell’s The World of Dinosaurs. . . . One of the principal paleontologists of our time."—New York Review of Books “A delight.”—Open Letters Review “Possibly the best general audience dinosaur book of 2019.”—Paleoaerie Dinosaurs have held sway over our imaginations since the discovery of their bones first shocked the world in the nineteenth century. From the monstrous beasts stalking Jurassic Park to the curiosities of the natural history museum, dinosaurs are creatures that unite young and old in awestruck wonder. Digging ever deeper into dinosaurs’ ancient past, science continues to unearth new knowledge about them and the world they inhabited, a fantastic time when the footprints of these behemoths marked the Earth that we humans now walk. Who better to guide us through this ancient world than paleontologist Mark A. Norell? A world-renowned expert in paleontology, with a knowledge of dinosaurs as deep as the buried fossils they left behind, Norell is in charge of what is perhaps America’s most popular collection of dinosaur bones and fossils, the beloved displays at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In The World of Dinosaurs, he leads readers through a richly illustrated collection detailing the evolution of these ancient creatures. From the horns of the Protoceratops to the wings of the Archaeopteryx, readers are invited to explore profiles of dinosaurs along with hundreds of color photographs, sketches, maps, and other materials—all rooted in the latest scientific discoveries—sure to both capture the imagination and satisfy a prehistoric curiosity. The World of Dinosaurs presents an astonishing collection of knowledge in an immersive visual journey that will fascinate any fan of Earth’s ancient inhabitants.