Sean Travers: Trauma in American Popular Culture and Cult Texts, 1980-2020
Trauma in American Popular Culture and Cult Texts, 1980-2020
Buch
- Springer International Publishing, 10/2023
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9783031132896
- Bestellnummer: 11629157
- Umfang: 272 Seiten
- Nummer der Auflage: 23001
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2022
- Gewicht: 356 g
- Maße: 210 x 148 mm
- Stärke: 15 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 15.10.2023
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
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 traumatised superheroes in Hollywood blockbusters to apocalyptic-themed television series, trauma narratives abound.Although trauma is predominantly associated with high culture, this project shows how popular culture has become the most productive and innovative area of trauma representation in America. Examining film, television, animation, video games and cult texts, this book develops a series of original paradigms through which to understand trauma in popular culture. These include: popular trauma texts engagement with postmodern perspectives, formal techniques termed competitive narration , polynarration and sceptical scriptotherapy , and perpetrator trauma in metafictional games.