Beasts of the deep : sea creatures and popular culture
edited by Jon Hackett and Seán Harrington
Bok · Engelsk · 2018
| Medvirkende | |
|---|---|
| Omfang | VII, 232 sider : illustrasjoner
|
| Opplysninger | 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.
|
| Emner | Folklore in popular culture
Sea monsters in popular culture bestemte motiver i litteraturen sjøuhyrer |
| Dewey | |
| ISBN | 9780861967339
|