{"product_id":"sharks-death-surfers-an-illustrated-companion-9783956794247","title":"Sharks, Death, Surfers: An Illustrated Companion","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Melissa Mccarthy\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: The MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Sternberg Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Criticism \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eHow sharks have been depicted over centuries and across cultures—and what sharks see when they look back.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe encounter the world through surfaces: the screen, the page, our skin, the ocean's swell. Here on the sea is the surfer, positioned at the edge of the collapsing wave. And lurking underneath in a monstrous mirroring is the shark. When the two meet, carving along the surface, breaking through the boundary, death appears. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSteering her analysis from the newspaper obituary through literature and past cinema, Melissa McCarthy investigates a fundamental aspect of the human condition: our state of being between life and death, always in precarious and watery balance. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSharks, Death, Surfers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e observes how sharks have been depicted over centuries and across cultures, then flips the lens (and dissects the cornea) to consider what sharks see when they look back. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese refracted lines of inquiry—optical, philosophical, historical—converge at the focal point where we can fix the image of the surfer and the shark. This is the picture McCarthy frames: the cartilaginous companions gliding together in a perfect model of how to read, navigate, and exist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45268915454103,"sku":"9783956794247","price":2102.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783956794247.webp?v=1769236784","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/sharks-death-surfers-an-illustrated-companion-9783956794247","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}