Subverting Mainstream Narratives in the Reagan Era: Giving Power to the People

ISBN-13: 9783319768182 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 162 str.

Ashley M. Donnelly

Opis

Subverting Mainstream Narratives in the Reagan Era explores how artists, novelists, and directors were able to present narratives of strong dissent in popular culture during the Reagan Era.

Spis treści

1. Violence, Power, and Control

2. Reagan’s America

3. Blank Fiction

4. Less Than Zero

5. Blank Film

6. Full Metal Jacket

7. The Serial Killer

8. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

9. American Psycho

10. Following the Threads of Blank Works in the 1990s

11. Conclusion

O autorze

Ashley M. Donnelly is Associate Professor of Telecommunications and Director of the Digital Storytelling Master’s Program in Telecommunications at Ball State University, USA. She is author of Renegade Hero or Faux Rogue: The Secret Traditionalism of Television Bad Boys, as well as several articles on contemporary US culture. Her work is based in cultural and critical theory and focuses gender, capitalism, and socio-political criticism. In addition to her academic work, she is an award-winning screenwriter who continues to write original feature films.