Fear and Loathing Worldwide: Gonzo Journalism Beyond Hunter S. Thompson

ISBN-13: 9781501361661 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 352 str.

Robert Alexander; Christine Isager

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Introduction Robert Alexander (Brock University, Canada) Part I: First Waves, Currents of Tradition 1. Gonzo Down Under: Matthew Thompson and the Literary and Political Legacy of Hunter S. Thompson Christopher Kremmer (University of New South Wales, Australia) 2. Diffusion of the Inimitable: Helge Timmerberg and the Advent of German Gonzo Tobias Eberwein (Austrian Academy of Sciences and Alpen-Adria University, Austria) 3. Gonzo Journalism in France: "Another Kind of Journalism is Possible" Honorine Reussard (Royaumont Abbaye & Fondation, France) 4. Gonzo Brazilian Style: Arthur Veríssimo´s Adaptations of Thompson's Journalism Monica Martinez (University of Sorocaba, Brazil) and Mateus Yuri Passos (Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, Brazil) Part II: Gonzo as Socio-Political Intervention 5. Australia's Elisabeth Wynhausen and a Century of Gonzo Ethnography Sue Joseph (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) 6. Loathing in Southern Denmark: Gonzo Ethos in a Showdown with Tabloid Journalism Christine Isager (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 7. “Among Madmen and Crooks”: Stella Braam's Strange and Terrible Saga of Total Immersion in Amsterdam Hilde Van Belle (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) 8. The Truth is Always Gonzo: David Leigh, Politics, and the Frontiers of Secrecy Nick Nuttall (London, UK) Part III: Gender and the Osmotic Gonzo Body 9. “Mastering the Art of Being Powerless and Completely Stupid”: Australian Gonzo as l'Écriture Masculine Fiona Giles (University of Sydney, Australia) 10. La Revista Prohibida Para las Mujeres: Gonzo By Women in SoHo Magazine of Colombia, South America Carlos A. Cortés-Martínez (University of Missouri, USA), Berkley Hudson (University of Missouri, USA), and Joy Jenkins (University of Oxford, UK) 11. The Return of Gonzo through the Female Body: Gabriela Wiener and the Journalist as a Sexual Vortex Pablo Calvi (Stony Brook University, USA) Part IV: Edgework, Fantasy, and Truth 12. Scatological Anecdotes, Heavy Drinking, and Backpacker Culture: Gonzo humor and Edgework in Contemporary Finnish Journalism Joonas Koivukoski (University of Helsinki, Finland) and Janne Zareff (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) 13. Fear and Loathing in the Desert of the Real: Hunter S. Thompson, “Hannibal Elector,” and the 2014 South African General Election Robert Alexander (Brock University, Canada) 14. Cultural Insight by Way of Distortion: Ziemowit Szczerek's Introduction and Immediate Deconstruction of Gonzo in Poland Mateusz Zimnoch (Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland) Part V: The Continuing Story of Gonzo Worldwide 15. The Hijacking of “Gonzo”: In Name Only, Hunter S. Thompson's Style is Everywhere on the Internet Jacqueline Marino (Kent State University, USA) 16. Future Gonzo by Spider Jerusalem: Thompson's Journalism Adapted to the World of the Graphic Novel Ashlee Nelson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Afterword: Gonzo Without End, Amen William McKeen (Boston University, USA) Index