Imaginary Biodiversity in the Screen. From the Monster Movie up to Fictional Taxonomy

Authors

  • Tomás Martín Hernández Universidad de La Laguna

Keywords:

Imaginary biodiversity, Monster movie, Film cryptozoology, Fiction taxonomy, Symbology

Abstract

Taxonomy is the field of biology that studies the classification of living things. Culture, art and films have created a new imaginary biodiversity for different purposes and meanings. The monster movie is a film genre that best shows this imaginary biodiversity. The uses and symbolism of this classification from the point of view of fiction are very different. For that reason movies have invented a very complex taxonomy fiction.

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Published

2013-12-08

Issue

No. 11 (2013)

Section

Miscellaneous

License

The originals published in Latente are property of their respective authors, who grant to the magazine the right of first publication of the texts and their lodging in other web portals in order to guarantee their preservation and a greater diffusion. Article contents are subject to a CC BY-NC-SA license.

How to Cite

Martín Hernández, Tomás. 2013. “Imaginary Biodiversity in the Screen. From the Monster Movie up to Fictional Taxonomy”. Latente - Revista de Historia Y Estética del Cine, Fotografí­a Y Cultura Visual, no. 11 (December): 85-103. https://www.ull.es/revistas/index.php/latente/article/view/5862.