{"product_id":"beasts-of-the-forest-denizens-of-the-dark-woods-9780861967407","title":"Beasts of the Forest: Denizens of the Dark Woods","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeasts of the Forest: Denizens of the Dark Woods\u003c\/em\u003e offers its readers an in-depth and interdisciplinary engagement with the forest and its monstrous inhabitants; through critical readings of folklore, fiction, film, music video and animation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin the text there are a multitude of convergent critical perspectives used to engage and explore fictional and real monsters of the forest in media and folklore. The collection features chapters from a variety of academic perspectives: film and media studies, cultural studies, queer theory, Tolkien studies, mythology and popular music are featured. Under examination are a wide range of narratives and media forms that represent, reimagine and create the werewolves, witches and weird apparitions that inhabit the forest, along with the forest as a monstrous entity in itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether they be our shelter and safe-haven or the domain of malevolent spirits and sprites, forests have the capacity to horrify and threaten those that venture into them without permission. Human interference has continually threatened forests across the world, yet this threat is reversed in myth, folklore and more recent cultural forms. This collection ranges widely to analyse how forests figure in contemporary culture, as well as the wider contexts in which such representations are inserted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jon Hackett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e John Libbey \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/02\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780861967407\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr Jon Hackett is the programme director of film and communications at St Mary's University, Twickenham. His research interests include film and cultural theory, film history and popular music. He is currently working on a monograph with Dr Mark Duffett of Chester University on popular music and monstrosity, to be entitled, inevitably, \u003cem\u003eScary Monsters\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDr Seán J. Harrington is an associate lecturer in film studies at University College Dublin. His research interests include Lacanian psychoanalysis, animation and popular culture. He has previously published work on animation and psychoanalytic theory and is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Disney Fetish\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"John Libbey \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39948970590323,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":28.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_3704a0c9-f692-4508-97ca-af9aca87b17e.jpg?v=1648474634","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/beasts-of-the-forest-denizens-of-the-dark-woods-9780861967407","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}