{"product_id":"9780861967339","title":"Beasts of the Deep : Sea Creatures and Popular Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeasts 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Libbey Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45394934530127,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":1015.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9780861967339","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}