{"670706":{"#nid":"670706","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ecohorror: Learning From Mutant Monsters and Killer Plants","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESince Godzilla crawled out of the ocean in 1954, a monstrous consequence of the atomic age, ecohorror has given modern audiences an imaginative way to grapple not only with our primal fear of nature \u2014 but also with our complicated feelings about humanity\u2019s impact on the environment.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis subgenre of horror, in which people face the wrath of nature and its emissaries, has never been more popular \u2014 driven in large measure by climate change anxiety and showcase titles such as the hit video game and HBO series\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Last of Us.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor many, ecohorror offers a safe outlet for our tangled and difficult feelings about climate change. The heroine of ecohorror comic\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EDark Fang\u003C\/em\u003E, for example, sets out to solve the fossil fuel problem \u2014 or at least avenge beaches blighted by an oil spill \u2014 by attacking oil company CEOs, said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/2d8b57ef-6d6a-5801-9895-c95bc9585b83\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBrianna Anderson\u003C\/a\u003E, a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEcohorror is great at expressing the rage and fear that people have about environmental issues, at the inadequacy of contemporary environmental movements,\u201d Anderson said. \u201cIn the 1980s, we thought everything would be okay if we recycled, right? But now we know that\u2019s absurd, that it\u2019s not even close.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/news-events\/features\/2023\/10\/ecohorror-learning-mutant-monsters-killer-plants\u0022\u003ERead the full article on the Ivan Allen College website.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESince Godzilla crawled out of the ocean in 1954, a monstrous consequence of the atomic age, ecohorror has given modern audiences an imaginative way to grapple not only with our primal fear of nature \u2014 but also with our complicated feelings about humanity\u2019s impact on the environment.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis subgenre of horror, in which people face the wrath of nature and its emissaries, has never been more popular \u2014 driven in large measure by climate change anxiety and showcase titles such as the hit video game and HBO series\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Last of Us.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ecohorror has given modern audiences an imaginative way to grapple not only with our primal fear of nature \u2014 but also with our complicated feelings about humanity\u2019s impact on the environment."}],"uid":"35797","created_gmt":"2023-10-26 17:36:56","changed_gmt":"2023-10-27 18:39:56","author":"Siobhan Rodriguez","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-10-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-10-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"672184":{"id":"672184","type":"image","title":"ecoavenging vampire midjourney (1).jpg","body":null,"created":"1698341828","gmt_created":"2023-10-26 17:37:08","changed":"1698341828","gmt_changed":"2023-10-26 17:37:08","alt":"ecoavenging vampire midjourney","file":{"fid":"255375","name":"ecoavenging vampire midjourney (1).jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/10\/26\/ecoavenging%20vampire%20midjourney%20%281%29.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/10\/26\/ecoavenging%20vampire%20midjourney%20%281%29.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":123415,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/10\/26\/ecoavenging%20vampire%20midjourney%20%281%29.jpg?itok=C9HQTLZk"}}},"media_ids":["672184"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/news-events\/features\/2023\/10\/ecohorror-learning-mutant-monsters-killer-plants","title":"Ecohorror: Learning From Mutant Monsters and Killer Plants"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"193218","name":"ecohorror"},{"id":"193219","name":"gothic horror"},{"id":"75891","name":"horror"},{"id":"5181","name":"comics"},{"id":"193220","name":"horror films"},{"id":"7127","name":"graphics"},{"id":"193221","name":"hbo"},{"id":"4749","name":"movies"},{"id":"4605","name":"halloween"},{"id":"2449","name":"video games"},{"id":"75901","name":"monsters"},{"id":"193222","name":"paranormal"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71901","name":"Society and Culture"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStephanie N. Kadel\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["stephanie.kadel@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}