Television and Precarity

Naturalist Narratives of Poor America
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-476-05659-7
Verlag: J.B. Metzler

Buch, Englisch, 357 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Jasmin Humburg provides evidence of naturalist narrative strategies, tropes, and character variations in six contemporary American television series: The Wire, Tremé, Shameless, Ozark, Orange is the New Black and 2 Broke Girls. The author investigates how poverty is negotiated through classic literary naturalism and contemporary televisual articulations, and how the latter may have been influenced by the former in the age of the Great Recession. By connecting literary studies, television studies, and concepts of social mobility, this project contributes to the field of new poverty studies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Humburg, Jasmin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Fernsehdrehbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ContentsTheorizing Representations of Poverty.- Exploring Determinism.- Infiltrating the Culture of Poverty.- Embodying the Plot of Decline.

Über Autor(innen)

The AuthorJasmin Humburg earned her doctorate in American Studies from Universität Hamburg. She currently works as a translator, lecturer, and literary critic.