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A Dark California: Essays on Dystopian Depictions in Popular Culture
Contributor(s): Nowak-McNeice, Katarzyna (Editor), Zarzycka, Agata (Editor)

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 ISBN: 1476667837     ISBN-13: 9781476667836
Publisher: McFarland & Company
OUR PRICE: $41.95  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: February 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - General
Dewey: 810.997
LCCN: 2017036633
Age Level: 18-UP
Grade Level: 13-UP
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.8" W x 8.6" L (0.60 lbs) 215 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
 
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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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