Jurassic Park Book

Matthew Melia is a senior lecturer in film, television, and English literature at Kingston University, London, UK. He is editor of The Films of Ken Russell (2021), a contributor to The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick (2021), and co-editor of The Jaws Book (Bloomsbury, 2020).

Editor Matthew Melia and 16 enterprising colleagues dig deep into Steven Spielberg's pivotal masterpiece and reveal everything you want to know about Jurassic Park and the universe it established. Contributors of this work answer questions you never thought to ask about the movie's production, marketing, box-office success, franchising, fandom, ecopolitics, merchandising, and afterlives, as well as the representation of men, Jews, scientists, and dinosaurs. Required reading for every T-Rex, velociraptor, and their hosts of descendants and distant relatives.

• List of IllustrationsTables and GraphsList of ContributorsForeword by Linda Ruth WilliamsAcknowledgementsIntroduction Matthew Melia (Kingston University, UK) Part I: Production, Adaptation and Reception1. Writing the Raptor: from Script to ScreenOliver Gruner (University of Portsmouth, UK)2. Rebellious Creations, Monstrous Animals and (Un)Natural Disasters: The Jurassic Park Franchise and Box Office Hit PatternsPeter Krämer (De Montfort University, UK)3. Sounds of the Lost World: Musical World Building in the Jurassic Park FranchiseDaniel White (Huddersfield University, UK)4. Beyond the Gift Shop: Onscreen Merchandise and Modelling the Consumer-SpectatorTom Livingstone (University of Kent, UK)5. Jurassic Park and Dinosaur FandomRoss Garner (Cardiff University, UK)6. Jurassic Park's Smoothing Pass: The Dinosaur Input Device and Digital Materialism Julie Turnock (University of Illinois, USA)7. From '6ft Turkey' to Marketing Monster: Marketing Jurassic Park and its SequelsEd Vollans (University of Leicester, UK)Part II: Critical Perspectives and Interpretation8. Jew-rassic Park Nathan Abrams (Bangor University, UK)9. Virility, Venality and Victory: Three Faces of Masculinity in Jurassic ParkKatie Barnett (University of Chester, UK)10. Jurassic Park and Spielberg's ScientistsJames Kendrick (Baylor University, USA)11. The Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park and the Portrayal of Prehistoric Life and Paleontology in FilmAli Nabavizadeh (University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, USA)12. Lost Worlds and Dino ViolenceJennifer Schell (University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA)13. Jurassic Park: Disaster, Chaos and Existential ThreatMatthew Melia (Kingston University, UK) Part III: Beyond Jurassic Park14. Smoke and Mirrors: the 3D Re-Imaginings of Jurassic ParkAllison Whitney (Texas Tech University, USA)15. The Jurassic JokeJanet Staiger (University of Texas, USA)16. A Chance to Three-Dimensionally Live the Movie': Jurassic Park Attractions and Their Influence on Global Themed ExperiencesCarissa Baker (University of Central Florida, USA)17. Family, Nostalgia and Dinosaurs on Stage: The Jurassic ParksCatherine Pugh (Independent Scholar, UK)Index