The Great recession in fiction, film and television twenty-first-century bust culture - Boyle, Kirk; Mrozowski, Daniel editor of compilation (Lanham, Maryland Lexington Books, 2013)
Introduction : Creative documentation of creative destruction / Kirk Boyle and Daniel Mrozowski -- Section 1 : Film -- The imagination of economic disaster : eco-catastrophe films of the great recession / Kirk Boyle -- Real-to-reel recessionary horrors in Drag me to hell and Contagion / April Miller -- Horror at the Homestead : The (re)possession of American property in Paranormal activity and Paranormal activity II / James D. Stone -- Section 2 : Fiction -- "Crash fiction": American literary novels of the global financial crisis / Daniel Mattingly -- Mommy porn, more or less : Fifty shades of grey and conservative feminism in the new economy / Sarah Domet -- "We are the walking dead" : zombie literature in recession-era America / Lance Rubin -- Section 3 : Television -- And they lived happily ever after; Or not at all : (un)imagining African Americans in recession-era popular culture / Maryann Erigha -- Latino liminality, exclusion and erasure in great recession television : the case of Treme and Friday night lights / Charli Valdez -- Masters, servants, and the effaced middle classes of Downton Abbey, The dark knight rises, and Falling skies / Jesseca Cornelson -- From hoarders to pickers: salvage aesthetics and reality television in the great recession / Daniel Mrozowski -- Section 4 : Multimedia -- Congress at the kitchen table: religious right applications of moral home economics to federal economic policy / Rebecca Barrett-Fox -- Graphic radicals: understanding the crash and the art of resistance / Sarah Hamblin.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009, in mass media -- United States