The Deep

Contents: Introduction - Image Intervention I: Myths of the Sea and the Sky - Leviathan, Mythical Creature (600 BC- present) - Biblical Myth - The Matsya Avatar (300 AD- present) - Indian Myth - Scales (Shahad Ameen, 2019) - Middle Eastern Myth - The Great Horned Serpent (c. 1450- present) - Iroquois Myth - Rusalki (Witold Pruszkowski, 1877) - Slavic Myth - Tropic of the Sea (Satoshi Kon, 2013) - Modern Japanese Myth - Duyung (Abdul Razak Mohaideen, 2008) - Aquatic Femininity - The Legend of K³pakonan (1891) - Punishing the Monstrous Feminine - The Little Mermaid (Hans Christian Andersen, 1837) - Feminine Magics - #Posidaeja (Efa, 2021) - Reclaiming the Feminine - Underwater (William Eubank, 2020) - Feminine Self in the Male Psyche - Aquaman Volume 1: The Trench (Geoff Johns, Ivan Reis and Joe Prado, 2011- 2012) - Changing Masculinities - The Creature from the Black Lagoon ( Jack Arnold, 1954) - Contested Masculinities - The Shadow Over Innsmouth (H. P. Lovecraft, 1936) - Recontextualising the Past - Hans Christian Andersen (1805- 1875) - Queer Affect - Image Intervention II: Untitled - Into the Drowning Deep (Mira Grant, 2017) - Mimicking Femininity - The Little Mermaid (Hans Christian Andersen, 1837) - Agency and the Feminine Body - "The Mermaid" (Hanna Cormick, 2018) - Environmental Disability and Aquatic Climate Crises - Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore, 2014) - Disentangling Difference - Possession (1981) to My Octopus Teacher (2020) - Beyond Human Desire - The Daedalus and the Great Sea Serpent (1848) - Oceanic Epistemologies - The Lure [C³rki dancingu] (Agnieszka SmoczyÅska, 2015) - The Eco- other as Spectacle - The Meg ( Jon Turtletaub, 2018) - Environmental Exploitation - Into the Drowning Deep (Mira Grant, 2017) - Neo- colonialism and the Liminal - Crawl (Alexandre Aja, 2019) - Ecological Decolonisation - Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001) - Ecological Exchanges - Image Intervention III: Becoming Merfolk - Abe Sapien (1994- present) - Ecofascism and the New World - Moana (Ron Clements and John Musker, 2016) - The Healing Ocean - Ocean Poems (David Malouf, 1976- 1991) - Becoming Ocean, Becoming Self - volution (Lucile HadžihaliloviÄ, 2015) - Transgressive Reproduction - Subnautica (Unknown Worlds Entertainment, 2014) - Envirofuturism.