Buchsuche

Stephen King and American Politics

Belletristik

From The Long Walk to The Outsider, Stephen King s output reflects the major political concerns of the previous fifty years. This book is the first sustained study of the complex ways in which King s texts speak to their unique political moments. By explori...

Stephen King and American History

Literaturkritik

This book surveys the labyrinthine relationship between Stephen King and American History. By depicting American History as a doomed cycle of greed and violence, King poses a number of important questions: who gets to make history, what gets left out, how one...

Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972-2017

Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972-2017 tracks the transformation of liberal thought in the contemporary United States through the unique lens of the popular paperback. The book focuses on cultural shifts as they appear in works w...

Magical Thinking, Fantastic Film, and the Illusions of Neoliberalism

Sozialwissenschaften

Considering films such as Candyman, Frozen, and The Cabin in the Woods, Michael J. Blouin contends that fantastic tales allow audiences to maintain the status quo instead of inspiring purposeful action.

Japan and the Cosmopolitan Gothic

Sozialwissenschaften

Japan is imagined routinely in American discourse as a supernatural entity. Gothic tales from these two cultures have been exchanged, consumed, and adapted. Here, Blouin examines a prevalent tendency within the United States-Japan cultural relationship to pro...