dinomania

The film launched a wave of dinomania, and, almost two decades later, it remains the standard image of what dinosaurs would have been like in life.

That's Not a Dinosaur! Brian Switek 2011

The clashing of music and visual senses in Inglorious Basterd bugged the hell out of me. dinomania

Tarantino Will Make Another Film Before Kill Bill 3; Perhaps a Western or Gangster Picture | /Film 2009

Does the open ending of "Jurassic Park" mean more dinomania to come?

A 'Jurassic' Sequel? Maybe. 2008

Americans are hardly the only ones gripped by dinomania.

All The World Loves A Dinosaur 2008

Every serious scientist was ready to concede that it somehow exceeded the bounds of scientific inquiry, that it had become (and indeed had always been) an object of popular fascination and mass appeal, a strange obsession known as "dinomania."

The Romantic Education of W.J.T. Mitchell 1997

Every serious scientist was ready to concede that it somehow exceeded the bounds of scientific inquiry, that it had become (and indeed had always been) an object of popular fascination and mass appeal, a strange obsession known as "dinomania."

The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur 1997

As a practicing paleontologist, I would love to believe that current dinomania arose as a direct product of our research, and of all the fascinating new ideas that our profession has generated about dinosaurs.

Dinomania Gould, Stephen Jay 1993

As a symbol of our dilemma, consider the plight of natural history museums in the light of commercial dinomania.

Dinomania Gould, Stephen Jay 1993

What promotes this substrate to overt and pervasive dinomania?

Dinomania Gould, Stephen Jay 1993

These crazes were not provoked by any technological improvement in the design of yo-yos (just as more competent dinosaurs do not engender dinomania).

Dinomania Gould, Stephen Jay 1993