Michael Delahoyde's
PLANET OF DINOSAURS
The
DINO-SOURCE
for popular culture scholarship on dinosaur films.*
The
DINO-SOURCE
for popular culture scholarship on dinosaur films.*
Film
Materials:
Cavespeak
"Ode to Derna"
Dinosaur-Dragon
Abstract
Stop-Motion Animation
Jurassic Park
Bibliography
The Lost World: Paper
Topics
Kong
Teaching Notes
One Million Years
B.C. Teaching Notes
*Note: It's a
rather finer type of cheese. Because these films invariably manifest
anthropocentric and speciesistic arrogance, and because they insist not
simply on a paranoid "kill or be
killed" outlook on existence, but on an absolutely irrational
"eat or be eaten" dynamic, I have been examining dinosaur films
for several years. They have offered a successful
component in my teaching of literature and composition here in the
English Department at Washington State University, and I find it crucial
to resist the impulse to shut down intellectually on popular materials
which promise "mindless" entertainment, for this is the
insidious stuff, reaching more people than Milton, Moby Dick, or PBS.
Also, it's personal: I like lizards (and birds); my last iguana's name
was Basil.
Dino-Filmography
Scholarship:
A chronological list of the films, with summaries (some extensive) and
other notes.
A brief dictionary of cave language.
A paean to the like totally best character in Planet of Dinosaurs.
Dino-Film
Abstract
Teaching Materials:
Originally my proposal for a session of the Popular Culture Association's
national conference, now an abstract to an article eventually to be published.
Originally my proposal for a session of the Popular Culture Association's
national conference, now an abstract to an article published as "Medieval
Dragons and Dinosaur Films" in Popular Culture
Review 9.1
(February 1998): 17-30.
A short encyclopedia article published in The Guide to United States
Popular Culture,
ed. Ray B. Browne & Pat Browne (Bowling Green, OH: Popular Press, 2001).
A short encyclopedia article published in The Guide to United States
Popular Culture.
A list of published materials on dinosaur films.
Film Assignment
Missing Links:
For composition classes.
Advice on ways to focus a literary analysis of the 1912 adventure novel
by Arthur Conan Doyle (which led to the first significant dinosaur film
in 1925).
Commentary on typical and excerpted remarks about the 1933 film.
Commentary especially on the beginning of the 1966 film.
