Beasts of the Deep : Sea Creatures and Popular Culture /

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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 conve...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Harrington, Sean (Editor ), Hackett, Jon (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Popular culture.
Marine animals.
Sea monsters.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : beasts of the deep
  • part 1. Folklore and weird tales
  • 1. "From beneath the waves" : sea-draugr and the popular conscience / Alexander Hay
  • 2. The depths of our experience : thalassophobia and the oceanic horror /Seán J. Harrington
  • 3. From depths of terror to depths of wonder : the sublime in Lovecraft's 'Call of Cthulhu' and Cameron's The abyss / Vivan Joseph
  • part 2. Depths of desire
  • 4, Beauty and the octopus : close encounters with the other-than-human / Marco Benoît Carbone
  • 5. The octopussy : Exploring representations of female sexuality in Victor Hugo's The toilers of the sea (1866) and The laughing man (1868) / Laura Ettenfield
  • 6. Psychedelic deep blues : the romanticised sea creature in Jimi Hendrix's '1983... (A merman I should turn to be)' (1968), Tim Buckley's 'Song to the siren' (1968) and Captain Beefheart's 'Grow fins' (1972) / Richard Mills
  • part 3. Aquatic spaces and practices
  • 7. Fan totems : affective investments in the sea creatures of horror and science fiction / Brigid Cherry
  • 8. Mermaid spotting : the rise of mermaiding in popular culture / Maria Mellins
  • 9. Adventures in liquid space : representations of the sea in Disney theme parks / Lee Brooks
  • 10. Rivers of blood, sea of bodies : an analysis of media coverage of migration and trafficking on the high seas / Carole Murphy
  • part 4. Screening sea creatures
  • 11. Becoming-shark? Jaws unleashed, the animal avatar, and popular culture's eco-politics / Michael Fuchs
  • 12. Songs of the sea : sea beasts and maritime folklore in global animation / Mark Fryers
  • 13. The Mosasaurus and immediacy in Jurassic World / Damian O'Byrne
  • 14. Nessie has risen from the grave / Kieran Foster and I.Q. Hunter.

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