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Author(s): Kathy Merlock Jackson Philip L Simpson

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Year: 2023

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“This shark, swallow you whole”
Essays on the Cultural Influence of Jaws

One of the most influential thrillers in media history, Jaws first surfaced as a best-selling novel by first-time novelist Peter Benchley in 1974, followed by the 1975 feature film directed by Steven Spielberg at the beginning of his storied career. Jaws is often considered the first “blockbuster,” and successive generations of filmmakers have cited it as formative in their own creative development. For nearly 50 years, critics and scholars have studied how and why this seemingly straightforward thriller holds such mass appeal. This book of original essays assembles a range of critical thought on the impact and legacy of the film, employing new perspectives–historical, cinematic, literary, scientific and environmental–while building on the insights of previous writers. While varying in focus, the essays in this volume all explore why Jaws was so successful in its time and how it remains a prominent storytelling influence well into the 21st century.

Table contents:

Kathy Merlock Jackson and Philip L. Simpson
Reinterpreting Text, Narrative, and Characters
Jaws as Patriarchal—and Ecocidal—Myth
Jane Caputi
Jaws, Quint’s Tale, and the Scars of World War II
Kathy Merlock Jackson
Amity Means Friendship
Jaws and the Post-Vietnam Politics of Perception
Andrew Howe
Struggling Against the Tide
Narrative Structure and the Human Connection in Jaws
Melissa Ford Lucken
Reflecting on Science, Nature, and Cultural Change
You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boom
Jaws, MythBusters, Science, and the Legacy of the Blockbuster
Michael J. Meindl
The Author and the Paratrooper
Speaking Up for Sharks, Fifty Years Apart
Emily Sullivan
Lessons from Jaws 1916–2020
What Have We Learned from Predators and Pandemics?
Amy J. Lantinga
“It’s a Carcharodon carcharias”
Jaws, the EcoGothic, and Climate Change
Carey Millsap-Spears and Michelle Zurawski
The Goofy Great White
Jaws and Our Love for an Apex Predator
Jay Alabaster
“Killing people whenever he felt like it”
The Predatory Rogue Shark as Forerunner of the American Cultural Obsession with Serial Killers
Philip L. Simpson and Andrew Lieb
Recreating the Film Industry
Jaws and the Racial Ubiquity of the Summer Blockbuster
Joshua Botvin
A Shark Eating Its Own Tail
Sequel, Cycle, and Remake in the Jaws Franchise
Matthew Bolton
You’ll Always Go in the Water Again
The Jaws Filone
Ralph Beliveau and Carl H. Sederholm
Summer Spielberg, Winter Spielberg
Generational Transitions from Jaws to the Age of Convergence
Gary R. Edgerton
Bibliography
Camille McCutcheon
About the Contributors
Index of Terms