A Dark California: Essays on Dystopian Depictions in Popular Culture
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Full Title

A Dark California: Essays on Dystopian Depictions in Popular Culture
Author(s)

Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice
Edition
ISBN

9781476629599, 9781476667836
Publisher

McFarland
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Focusing on portrayals of California in popular culture, this collection of new essays traces a central theme of darkness through literature (Toby Barlow, Angela Carter, Joan Didion, Thomas Pynchon, and Claire Vaye Watkins), video games (L.A. Noire), music (Death Grips, Lana Del Rey, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers), TV (True Detective and American Horror Story), and film (Starry Eyes, Southland Tales and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night).
Providing insight into the significance of Californian icons, the contributors explore the interplay between positive stereotypes connected to the myth of the Golden State and ambivalent responses to the myth based on social and political power, the consequences of consumerism, transformations of the landscape and the dominance of hyperreality.

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