Bennett / McDougall Popular Culture and the Austerity Myth

Hard Times Today
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-37425-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 254 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

Contemporary popular culture is engaged in a rich and multi-levelled set of representational relations with austerity. This volume seeks to explore these relations, to ask: how does popular culture give expression to austerity; how are its effects conveyed; how do texts reproduce and expose its mythic qualities? It provides a reading of cultural texts in circulation in the present ‘age of austerity’. Through its central focus—popular culture—it considers the impact and influence of austerity across media and textual categories. The collection presents a theoretical deconstruction of popular culture’s reproduction of, and response to, mythical expressions of ‘austerity’ in Western culture, spanning the United Kingdom, North America, Europe and the Middle East and textual events from political media discourse, music, videogames, social media, film, television, journalism, folk art, food, protest movements, slow media and the practice of austerity in everyday life

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bennett, Pete

McDougall, Julian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: Hard Times Today Pete Bennett and Julian McDougall Part 1: The Way We Live Now: Austerity Myths in Everyday Life 1. Austerity in Lived Experience Gargi Bhattachary 2. The Allotment in the Restaurant: The Paradox of Foody Austerity and Changing Food Values Abigail Wincott 3. Snatches of Songs: Lyrical Reflections upon Alienation and Austerity, From Thatcherism to Cameron’s Coalition Allister MacTaggart 4. The Face of Farage Julian McDougall Part 2: Popular Culture: Myths from the Front 5. Austerity for Spatial Alterity: HBO’s Carnivale Thomas Mical 6. "Actually We Should Be Growing Up": Neoliberalism and Austerity in NEON Anne Graefer 7. Living in the Shadow of Manhattan: The White Knight Rises Pete Bennett 8. (Negatively) Benefits Street: The Return of Naked Ideology Julian McDougall Part 3: Out on the Streets: Myths and Acts of Resistance 9. From Hooverville to Bloomsbergville: Protest Camps and Cultural Imaginaries of Austerity in the United States Anna Feigenbaum 10. On Ready-Made Revolutions in the Arab World: How Armchair Journalism and Citizen Empowerment 2.0 Fit into the Rhetoric of Contemporary Neoliberal Discourse Donatella Della Ratta 11. Cinema America Occupato: Reclaiming the Cultural Commons With Slow Media Antonio Lopez and Peter Sarram Part 4: Popular Culture: Mythical Symmetries 12. Death and Dead End Jobs: Independent American Horror and the Great Recession Craig Mann 13. Poor Relations: Youth and Poverty in post-Millennial British Cinema Stella Hockenhull 14. Video Games and Representations of Crime: The Morality of Criminality in an "Age of Austerity" Wayne O’Brien Afterword Helen Davies and Claire O’Callaghan

Über Autor(innen)

Pete Bennett is Senior Lecturer in Postcompulsory Education at University of Wolverhampton, UK

Julian McDougall is Head of the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice and Associate Professor in Media and Education at Bournemouth University, UK