A shark and its fellow marine residents captivate onlookers at the Underwater Observatory Marine Park aquarium in Israel. Sharks can simultaneously captivate us and terrify us. Art Widak/HurPhoto via Getty Images
Every summer on the Discovery Channel, Shark Week inundates its eager audiences with spectacular documentary footage of sharks hunting, feeding and leaping.
Debuting in 1988, the television event was an instant hit. Its financial success wildly exceeded the expectations of its creators, who had been inspired by the profitability of the 1975 blockbuster film Jaws, the first movie to earn $100 million at the box office.
Thirty-three years later, the enduring popularity of the longest-running programming event in cable TV history is a testament to a nation terrified and fascinated by sharks.
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Jeffrey Boakye
Jeffrey Boakye is a writer, teacher and music enthusiast originally from Brixton, London. He has a particular interest in issues surrounding educa tion, race and popular culture. Jeffrey has taught English in London second ary schools and sixth-form colleges since 2007, previously working in jour nalism and copywriting, after graduating with a degree in English Literature.
His first book,
Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials and the Meaning of Grime, is recognised as one of the first seminal books about grime music, published by Influx Press in 2017.
Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored is his second major book, published under Dialogue Books in 2018. He is also the co-author of