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Product details

  • ISBN 9781476667836
  • Format: Paperback
  • Weight: 268g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Feb 2018
  • Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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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.
About
Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice is a Conex-Marie Curie Research Fellow at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. She has published essays on California literature, Post-colonial theory and opera studies. Agata Zarzycka is an assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Wrocław, Poland. She has published essays on speculative fiction, transmediality and video games.