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 Red Hot Chili Peppers), TV series (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 with 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.
| ISBN: | 9781476667836 |
| Publication date: | 30th January 2018 |
| Author: | Katarzyna NowakMcNeice |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Co Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 215 pages |
| Genres: |
Popular culture Television Films, cinema Literature: history and criticism Popular music Computer games / online games: strategy guides |
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 Red Hot Chili Peppers), TV series (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 with 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.
A Dark California features in the following genres: Popular culture, Television, Films, cinema, Literature: history and criticism, Popular music, Computer games / online games: strategy guides
A Dark California is available in Paperback
A Dark California was written by Katarzyna NowakMcNeice and published by McFarland & Co Inc
A Dark California has 215 pages
£35.96