Trauma in American Popular Culture and Cult Texts, 1980-2020
This book examines trauma in late twentieth- and twenty-first century American popular culture. Trauma has become a central paradigm for reading contemporary American culture. Since the early 1980s, an extensive range of genres increasingly feature traumatised protagonists and traumatic events. From...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Trauma and Postmodernism: Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves and Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining
- 3. Competitive Narration: Tim Burton’s Batman Returns and David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks
- 4. Polynarration: in The Wachowskis’ Sense8 (2015-2018), Rebecca Sugar’s Steven Universe (2013-2019), and Nia DaCosta’s Candyman (2021)
- 5. Sceptical scriptotherapy in Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij’s The OA and Sam Esmai’s Mr Robot
- 6. Perpetrator Trauma in Video Games: Team Salvato’s Doki Doki Literature Club and Toby Fox’s Undertale
- 7. Conclusion.