"This shark, swallow you whole"

Kathy Merlock Jackson, a professor of media and communication at Virginia Wesleyan University, teaches courses in media studies and children’s culture. She is the author or editor of thirteen books and former editor of The Journal of American Culture. She has served as past president of both the American Culture Association and the Popular Culture Association. Philip L. Simpson is a dean at Eastern Florida State College. He is the author of numerous books, chapters, journal articles, and reviews.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionKathy Merlock Jackson and Philip L. SimpsonReinterpreting Text, Narrative, and CharactersJaws as Patriarchal—and Ecocidal—MythJane CaputiJaws, Quint’s Tale, and the Scars of World WarKathy Merlock JacksonAmity Means Friendship: Jaws and the ­Post-Vietnam Politics of PerceptionAndrew HoweStruggling Against the Tide: Narrative Structure and the Human Connection in JawsMelissa Ford LuckenReflecting on Science, Nature, and Cultural ChangeYou’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boom: Jaws, MythBusters, Science, and the Legacy of the BlockbusterMichael J. MeindlThe Author and the Paratrooper: Speaking Up for Sharks, Fifty Years ApartEmily SullivanLessons 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 ChangeCarey ­Millsap-Spears and Michelle ZurawskiThe Goofy Great White: Jaws and Our Love for an Apex PredatorJay Alabaster“Killing people whenever he felt like it”: The Predatory Rogue Shark as Forerunner of the American Cultural Obsession with Serial KillersPhilip L. Simpson and Andrew LiebRecreating the Film IndustryJaws and the Racial Ubiquity of the Summer BlockbusterJoshua BotvinA Shark Eating Its Own Tail: Sequel, Cycle, and Remake in the Jaws FranchiseMatthew BoltonYou’ll Always Go in the Water Again: The Jaws FiloneRalph Beliveau and Carl H. SederholmSummer Spielberg, Winter Spielberg: Generational Transitions from Jaws to the Age of ConvergenceGary R. EdgertonBibliographyCamille McCutcheonAbout the ContributorsIndex