Beasts of the Deep

Dr Jon Hackett is a senior lecturer in film and screen media at St Marys University. 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, Scary Monsters.
Dr SeJ. Harrington is a lecturer in film and screen media at St Marys University. 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 The Disney Fetish.