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Author:   Kirk Boyle ,  Daniel Mrozowski ,  Rebecca Barrett-Fox ,  Jesseca Cornelson
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.467kg
ISBN:  

9781498520621

ISBN 10:   1498520626
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   26 August 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Creative Documentation of Creative Destruction Kirk Boyle and Daniel Mrozowski Section I: Film Chapter 1: The Imagination of Economic Disaster: Eco-Catastrophe Films of the Great Recession Kirk Boyle Chapter 2: Real-to-Reel Recessionary Horrors in Drag Me to Hell and Contagion April Miller Chapter 3: Horror at the Homestead: The (Re)possession of American Property in Paranormal Activity and Paranormal Activity II James Stone Section II: Fiction Chapter 4: “We are the walking dead”: Zombie Literature in Recession-Era America Lance Rubin Chapter 5: “Crash Fiction”: American Literary Novels of the Global Financial Crisis Daniel Mattingly Chapter 6: Mommy Porn, More or Less: Fifty Shades of Grey and Conservative Feminism in the New Economy Sarah Domet Section III: Television Chapter 7: And They Lived Happily Ever After…Or Not at All: (Un)Imagining African Americans in Recession-Era Popular Culture Maryann Erigha Chapter 8: Latino Liminality, Exclusion and Erasure in Great Recession Television: The Case of Treme and Friday Night Lights Charli Valdez Chapter 9: Masters, Servants, and the Effaced Middle Classes of Downton Abbey, The Dark Knight Rises, and Falling Skies Jesseca Cornelson Chapter 10: From Hoarders to Pickers: Salvage Aesthetics and Reality Television in The Great Recession Daniel Mrozowski Section IV: Multimedia Chapter 11: Congress at the Kitchen Table: Religious Right Applications of Moral Home Economics to Federal Economic Policy Rebecca Barrett-Fox Chapter 12: Graphic Radicals: Understanding the Crash and the Art of Resistance Sarah Hamblin

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The Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television is a welcome addition the cultural analysis of the 2007 economic meltdown. It is an astutely edited volume that shows how “bust culture” became a textual emphasis in all manner of productions: film, fiction, television, and art. This is vital reading for those who are interested in how focal economic events become the material of textual expression. -- Stanley Corkin, University of Cincinnati

The Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television is a welcome addition the cultural analysis of the 2007 economic meltdown. It is an astutely edited volume that shows how bust culture became a textual emphasis in all manner of productions: film, fiction, television, and art. This is vital reading for those who are interested in how focal economic events become the material of textual expression. -- Stanley Corkin, University of Cincinnati

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Kirk Boyle is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Literature and Language at the University of North Carolina Asheville. Dan Mrozowski is a visiting assistant professor in the English Department at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, where he teaches courses in American literature, critical theory, and crime fiction.

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