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About this book
A smart and incisive exploration of everyone's favorite dinosaur movie and the female dinosaurs who embody what it means to be angry, monstrous, and free
The Jurassic Park series is one of the most famous and profitable cinematic experiences of all time, with an entire generation of people who have never known life without these CGI dinosaurs. But while the movie spectacle broke film and merchandising records, pioneered special effects, and made Jeff Goldblum into an unlikely sex symbol, it has also been re-envisioned as a classic of queer feminist storytelling.
In Clever Girl, Hannah McGregor argues that the female-only dinosaurs of Jurassic Park are stand-ins for monstrous women, engineered by men to be intelligent, violent, and adaptive, and whose chaos resists the systems designed to control them. As they run wild through their prison, a profit-driven theme park, they destroy the men and structures who mistakenly believed in their own colonialist and capitalist power, showing the audience what it means to be angry, monstrous, and free. The velociraptors were not just jump scares for children, but also revelatory and predatory symbols of feminist rage. Clever girls, indeed.
About the Pop Classics Series
Short books that pack a big punch, Pop Classics offer intelligent, fun, and accessible arguments about why a particular pop phenomenon matters.
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Table of contents
- More Praise for Clever Girl
- The Pop Classics Series
- Dedication
- Epigraphs
- Introduction — “Objects in mirror are closer than they appear”: On Looking at Dinosaurs and Dinosaurs Looking Back
- 1 — “Clever girl”: The Queer Erotics and Feminist Monstrosity of Velociraptors
- 2 — “Life, uh, finds a way”: Settler Colonialism, Dinosaur Ecology, and the Violence of Discovery
- 3 — “You never had control — that’s the illusion!”: Chaos, Apocalypse, and Queer Family-Making
- Conclusion — Backwards and in Beige Heels
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright