Beasts of the Deep

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>