Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television (eBook)

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.

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