%0 Journal Article
%T Revived nature: the terrifying still-life in Jurassic Park
%A Freyheit, Matthieu
%J Cahiers ERTA
%V 2014
%R 10.4467/23538953CE.14.020.3427
%N Numéro  6 Nature morte
%P 161-175
%K still-life, vanitas, dinosaur, technothriller, paleontology, Michael Crichton
%@ 2300-4681
%D 2014
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/nature-morte-fiction-vive-extinction-et-narration-dans-jurassic-park
%X This article focuses on the specificity of the Mesozoic still-life and his relations with contemporary days, and even with futuristic novel. Museum of dust and bones, the dinosaur figures a hyperbolized still-life and insist on the theme of the vanitas. In Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton introduces such vanitas, but also distorts it: when dinosaurs rise from the dead, human beings have to turn into still-life to avoid the predator’s jaws. Our main goal is to ask the possibility of connections between still-life and adventure fiction. Can the still-life support such a fiction, far from the classical idea of Art’s notion?