Beasts of the Deep (eBook, ePUB)

Sea Creatures and Popular Culture
Redaktion: Hackett, Jon; Harrington, Seán

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Beasts of the Deep: Sea Creatures and Popular Culture offers its readers an in-depth and interdisciplinary engagement with the sea and its monstrous inhabitants; through critical readings of folklore, weird fiction, film, music, radio and digital games.

Within the text there are a multitude of convergent critical perspectives used to engage and explore fictional and real monsters of the sea in media and folklore. The collection features chapters from a variety of academic perspectives; post- modernism, psychoanalysis, industrial-organisational analysis, fandom studies, sociology and philosophy are featured. Under examination are a wide range of narratives and media forms that represent, reimagine and create the Kraken, mermaids, giant sharks, sea draugrs and even the weird creatures of H.P. Lovecraft.

Beasts of the Deep offers an expansive study of our sea-born fears and anxieties, that are crystallised in a variety of monstrous forms. Repeatedly the chapters in the collection encounter the contemporary relevance of our fears of the sea and its inhabitants - through the dehumanising media depictions of refugees in the Mediterranean to the encroaching ecological disasters of global warming, pollution and the threat of mass marine extinction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780861969395
• Artikelnr.: 52146818

Autorenporträt

Edited by Jon Hackett and Seán Harrington

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Folklore and Weird Tales
"From Beneath the Waves": Sea-Draugr and the Popular Conscience - Alexander
Hay
The Depths of our Experience: Thalassophobia and the Lovecraftian Horror -
Seán J. Harrington
From Depths of Terror to Depths of Wonder: The Sublime in Lovecraft's Call
of Cthulhu and Cameron's The Abyss - Vivan Joseph
"Is there sound in the deep?": Representation and resonance in radio
dramatisations of The Kraken Wakes - Farokh Soltani
Part 2: Depths of Desire
Beauty and the Octopus: Cephalopods as Sexualized Monsters - Marco Carbone
The Octopussy: Exploring Representations of Female Sexuality and Animality
in Victor Hugo's The Toilers of the Sea (1866) and The Laughing Man (1868)
- Laura Ettenfield
Transformations of Desire in The Life Aquatic (2004) - Pete Fossey
Psychedelic Deep Blues: Jimi Hendrix's, 1983 (A Merman I Should Turn to be)
(1968), Tim Buckley's, Song of the Siren (1968) and Captain Beefheart's,
Grow Fins (1972) - Richard Mills
Part 3: Aquatic Spaces and Practices
Fan Totems: Affective Investments in the Sea Creatures of Horror and
Science Fiction - Brigid Cherry
Mermaid Spotting: the rise of mermaiding in popular culture - Maria Mellins
Journeys in Liquid Space: Representations of the Sea in Disney Theme Parks-
Lee Brooks
Rivers of blood, Sea of bodies: An analysis of recent media coverage of
migration and trafficking on the High Seas - Carole Murphy
Part 4: Screening Sea Creatures
Becoming the Shark and/vs. Controlling the Shark: Jaws Unleashed, the
Animal Avatar, and Human-Animal Relationships - Michael Fuchs
Songs of the Sea: Sea Beasts and Maritime Folklore in Global Animation -
Mark Fryers
Jurassic World's Mosasaurus as the saviour of the classic cinema
blockbuster - Damian O'Byrne
Nessie Has Risen from the Grave - Ian Hunter