Poetics of Politics : Textuality and Social Relevance in Contemporary American Literature and Culture.
β Scribed by Herrmann, Sebastian M.; Hofmann, Carolin Alice; Kanzler, Katja; Schubert, Stefan; Usbeck, Frank
- Publisher
- UniversitΓ€tsverlag Winter
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 341
- Series
- American Studies - A Monograph Series.
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Intro
Table of Content
S.M. HERRMANN, K. KANZLER, S. SCHUBERT --
Introduction: The Poetics of Politics
Film and Television
ANDREW HOBEREK --
Thinking Institutionally: ""Argo, Zero Dark Thirty"", and the Politics of Contemporary Historical Films
FELIX BRINKER --
On the Formal Politics of Narratively Complex Television Series: Operational Self-Reflexivity and Audience Management in ""Fringe"" and ""Homeland
ELEONORA RAVIZZA --
The Politics of Melodrama: Nostalgia, Performance, and Gender Roles in ""Revolutionary Road MICHAEL BUTTER --
American Basterds: The Deconstruction of World War II Myths in Steven Soderbergh's ""The Good German"" and Quentin Tarantino's ""Inglourious BasterdsDOROTHEA GAIL, RAY CANOY --
The Last Days of American Civilization: The Poetics of Righteous Violence in Bob Goldthwait's Black Comedy ""God Bless America
Nonfiction
BRUNO ARICH-GERZ --
Poetics of Disaster: Filmic Elements and Traces of Fiction Literature in the ""9/11 Commission Report"": Frames and Functions of a Generic Hybrid SEBASTIAN M. HERRMANN --
Foggy Realisms? Fiction, Nonfiction, and Political Affect in Larry Beinhart's ""Fog Facts"" and ""The LibrarianCAROLIN ALICE HOFMANN --
Testifying by Proxy: A Trauma Studies Approach to ""The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Literature
KATJA KANZLER --
Post-Race Ideology and the Poetics of Genre in David Mamet's ""Race
HANS FRESE --
The Great American Novel and Beyond: Jonathan Franzenand the Legacy of the Culture Wars
ILKA SAAL --
"Just as Good as the Real Thing": ""Historiopoiesis"" in Third-Generation Narratives on Slavery OLESYA BONDARENKO --
"Inherently Political": RancieΜrian Philosophy and Language WritingSABRINA HUΜTTNER --
Politics of Dissent: Reconsidering 'the Political' in Tony Kushner's ""Homebody/Kabul
New Media
STEFAN SCHUBERT --
Objectivism, Narrative Agency, and the Politics of Choice in the Video Game ""BioShock
SOPHIE SPIELER --
"Our Everyday Is Better Than Your Best Day": Spectacle and the Politics of Ambiguity on the ""Tumblr"" Blog ""Rich Kids of Instagram
FRANK USBECK --
"The Power of the Story": 'Popular Narratology' in Pentagon Reports on Social Media Use in the Military
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