As with the conference in 2016, this volume presents an eclectic and insightful collection of research findings, from a number of disciplines and interpretive frameworks. Most of the chapters in this volume emerge from the proceedings of a conference on 4 June 2016 at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. Beasts of the Deep: Sea Creatures and Popular Culture aims to focus attention within this field of enquiry to the sea and its beastly inhabitants, in the widest sense. Iscussing recent scholarly trends, Asa Mittman observes that ‘in the space of a few years, the study of monsters has moved from the absolute periphery – perhaps its logical starting point – to a much more central position’ in academia (2012: 1). We also wish to thank Rupert Norfolk, our talented and dedicated illustrator, who provided us with the wonderful images for this collection. Second, our administrative and technical support staff, particularly Susanne Gilbert and Fallon Parker, whose contributions to our conference schedules have been imaginative and invaluable. One of these, Lee Brooks, has kindly provided the striking cover to this volume too. First, our academic colleagues who have contributed some of the wonderfully diverse chapters in the pages that follow. We would like to thank our colleagues at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, without whom neither the original conference nor this volume would have been possible. HunterĪcknowledgements The editors would like to acknowledge ‘Grow Fins’, Words and Music by Don Van Vliet ©1971 and reproduced by permission of EMI Music Publishing Limited, London W1F 9LD. SCREENING SEA CREATURES Becoming-Shark? Jaws Unleashed, the Animal Avatar, and Popular Culture’s Eco-Politics, Michael Fuchs Songs of the Sea: Sea Beasts and Maritime Folklore in Global Animation, Mark Fryers The Mosasaurus and Immediacy in Jurassic World, Damian O’Byrne Nessie Has Risen from the Grave, Kieran Foster and I. Harrington From Depths of Terror to Depths of Wonder: The Sublime in Lovecraft’s ‘Call of Cthulhu’ and Cameron’s The Abyss, Vivan JosephĭEPTHS OF DESIRE Beauty and the Octopus: Close encounters with the other-than-human, Marco Benoît Carbone The Octopussy: Exploring representations of female sexuality in Victor Hugo’s The Toilers of the Sea (1866) and The Laughing Man (1868), Laura Ettenfield 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 MillsĪQUATIC 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 Adventures in Liquid Space: Representations of the Sea in Disney Theme Parks, Lee Brooks Rivers of Blood, Sea of Bodies: An Analysis of Media Coverage of Migration and Trafficking on the High Seas, Carole Murphy Part 3: Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Part 4: Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14įOLKLORE AND WEIRD TALES “From Beneath the Waves”: Sea-Draugr and the Popular Conscience, Alexander Hay The Depths of our Experience: Thalassophobia and the Oceanic Horror, Seán J. Printed and bound in the United States of America.
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Published by John Libbey Publishing Ltd, 205 Crescent Road, East Barnet, Herts EN4 8SB, United Kingdom e-mail: web site: Distributed worldwide by Indiana University Press, Herman B Wells Library – 350, 1320 E. Beasts of the Deep Sea Creatures and Popular CultureĮdited by Jon Hackett and Seán Harringtonīritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Beasts of the Deep: Sea Creatures and Popular Culture A catalogue entry for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 9780 86196 733 9 (Paperback) 9780 86196 939 5 (Ebook)
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