A Dark California

Essays on Dystopian Depictions in Popular Culture (livre en anglais)

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Sous la direction de Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice et Agata Zarzycka

Type

Essais

Sujet

Genre > Catastrophe

Mots Clés

California, politique

Année d'édition

2018

Editeur

McFarland & Co

Collection

Film Noir

Langue

anglais

Taille du livre

Format

Broché • 215 pages
15 x 23 cm

ISBN

978-1-4766-6783-6

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Description de l'ouvrage :
Focusing on portrayals of California in popular culture, this collection of new essays traces a central theme of darkness through literature (Toby Barlow, Angela Carter, Joan Didion, Thomas Pynchon, and Claire Vaye Watkins), video games (L.A. Noire), music (Death Grips, Lana Del Rey, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers), TV (True Detective and American Horror Story), and film (Starry Eyes, Southland Tales and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night). Providing insight into the significance of Californian icons, the contributors explore the interplay between positive stereotypes connected to the myth of the Golden State and ambivalent responses to the myth based on social and political power, the consequences of consumerism, transformations of the landscape and the dominance of hyperreality.

À propos des auteurs :
Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice is a Conex-Marie Curie Research Fellow at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. She has published essays on California literature, Post-colonial theory and opera studies.
Agata Zarzycka is an assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Wroclaw, Poland. She has published essays on speculative fiction, transmediality and video games.

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