Overview
- Analyzes 1980s culture by tying literature and film together with a strong theoretical base
- Illustrates how blank fiction and cinema interrogate issues of social irresponsibility, rampant consumerism, and the global domination of capitalist values
- Appeals to popular culture scholars, literature scholars, film scholars, 1980s specialists, film/literature adaptation scholars, and gender scholars alike
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About this book
Subverting Mainstream Narratives in the Reagan Era explores how artists, novelists, and directors were able to present narratives of strong dissent in popular culture during the Reagan Era. Using but subverting the tools of mainstream novels and films, these visionaries’ works were featured alongside other books in major bookstores and promoted alongside blockbusters in movie theatres across the country. Ashley M. Donnelly discusses how the artists accomplished this, why it is so important, and how new artists can use these techniques in today’s homogenous and mundane media.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ashley M. Donnelly is Associate Professor of Telecommunications and Director of the Digital Storytelling Master’s Program in Telecommunications at Ball State University, USA. She is author of Renegade Hero or Faux Rogue: The Secret Traditionalism of Television Bad Boys, as well as several articles on contemporary US culture. Her work is based in cultural and critical theory and focuses gender, capitalism, and socio-political criticism. In addition to her academic work, she is an award-winning screenwriter who continues to write original feature films.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Subverting Mainstream Narratives in the Reagan Era
Book Subtitle: Giving Power to the People
Authors: Ashley M. Donnelly
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76819-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76818-2Published: 04 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08298-7Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76819-9Published: 23 March 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 162
Topics: American Culture, American Cinema and TV, North American Literature, Popular Culture , Media and Communication