The 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).

List of IllustrationsTables and Graphs
List of Contributors
Foreword by Linda Ruth Williams
Acknowledgements

Introduction
Matthew Melia (Kingston University, UK)

Part I: Production, Adaptation and Reception
1. Writing the Raptor: from Script to Screen
Oliver Gruner (University of Portsmouth, UK)
2. Rebellious Creations, Monstrous Animals and (Un)Natural Disasters: The Jurassic Park Franchise and Box Office Hit Patterns
Peter Krämer (De Montfort University, UK)
3. Sounds of the Lost World: Musical World Building in the Jurassic Park Franchise
Daniel White (Huddersfield University, UK)
4. Beyond the Gift Shop: Onscreen Merchandise and Modelling the Consumer-Spectator
Tom Livingstone (University of Kent, UK)
5. Jurassic Park and Dinosaur Fandom
Ross 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 Sequels
Ed Vollans (University of Leicester, UK)

Part II: Critical Perspectives and Interpretation
8. Jew-rassic Park
Nathan Abrams (Bangor University, UK)
9. Virility, Venality and Victory: Three Faces of Masculinity in Jurassic Park
Katie Barnett (University of Chester, UK)
10. Jurassic Park and Spielberg’s Scientists
James Kendrick (Baylor University, USA)
11. The Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park and the Portrayal of Prehistoric Life and Paleontology in Film
Ali Nabavizadeh (University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, USA)
12. Lost Worlds and Dino Violence
Jennifer Schell (University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA)
13. Jurassic Park: Disaster, Chaos and Existential Threat
Matthew Melia (Kingston University, UK)

Part III: Beyond Jurassic Park
14. Smoke and Mirrors: the 3D Re-Imaginings of Jurassic Park
Allison Whitney (Texas Tech University, USA)
15. The Jurassic Joke
Janet Staiger (University of Texas, USA)
16. A Chance to Three-Dimensionally Live the Movie’: Jurassic Park Attractions and Their Influence on Global Themed Experiences
Carissa Baker (University of Central Florida, USA)
17. Family, Nostalgia and Dinosaurs on Stage: The Jurassic Parks
Catherine Pugh (Independent Scholar, UK)

Index