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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Kirk Boyle and Daniel Mrozowski - Contributions by Rebecca Barrett-Fox; Jesseca Cornelson; Sarah Domet; Maryann Erigha; Sarah Hamblin; Daniel Mattingly; April Miller; Lance Rubin; James Stone and Charli Valdez Klappentext The Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television: Twenty-First-Century Bust Culture sheds light on how imaginary works of fiction, film, and television reflect, refract, and respond to the recessionary times specific to the twenty-first century, a sustained period of economic crisis that has earned the title the "Great Recession." This collection takes as its focus "Bust Culture," a concept that refers to post-crash popular culture, specifically the kind mass produced by multinational corporations in the age of media conglomeration, which is inflected by diminishment, influenced by scarcity, and infused with anxiety. The multidisciplinary contributors collected here examine mass culture not typically included in discussions of the financial meltdown, from disaster films to reality TV hoarders, the horror genre to reactionary representations of women, Christian right radio to Batman, television characters of color to graphic novels and literary fiction. The collected essays treat our busted culture as a seismograph that registers the traumas of collapse, and locate their pop artifacts along a spectrum of ideological fantasies, social erasures, and profound fears inspired by the Great Recession. What they discover from these unlikely indicators of the recession is a mix of regressive, progressive, and bemused texts in need of critical translation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Creative Documentation of Creative Destruction Kirk Boyle and Daniel MrozowskiSection I: Film Chapter 1: The Imagination of Economic Disaster: Eco-Catastrophe Films of theGreat RecessionKirk BoyleChapter 2: Real-to-Reel Recessionary Horrors in Drag Me to Hell and ContagionApril MillerChapter 3: Horror at the Homestead: The (Re)possession of American Property in Paranormal Activity and Paranormal Activity IIJames StoneSection II: Fiction Chapter 4: "We are the walking dead": Zombie Literature in Recession-Era AmericaLance RubinChapter 5: "Crash Fiction": American Literary Novels of the Global Financial CrisisDaniel MattinglyChapter 6: Mommy Porn, More or Less: Fifty Shades of Grey and Conservative Feminism in the New EconomySarah DometSection III: Television Chapter 7: And They Lived Happily Ever After...Or Not at All: (Un)Imagining African Americans in Recession-Era Popular CultureMaryann ErighaChapter 8: Latino Liminality, Exclusion and Erasure in Great Recession Television: The Case of Treme and Friday Night LightsCharli ValdezChapter 9: Masters, Servants, and the Effaced Middle Classes of Downton Abbey, The Dark Knight Rises, and Falling SkiesJesseca CornelsonChapter 10: From Hoarders to Pickers: Salvage Aesthetics and Reality Television in The Great RecessionDaniel MrozowskiSection IV: Multimedia Chapter 11: Congress at the Kitchen Table: Religious Right Applications of Moral Home Economics to Federal Economic PolicyRebecca Barrett-FoxChapter 12: Graphic Radicals: Understanding the Crash and the Art of ResistanceSarah Hamblin...
