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Suburban Fantastic Cinema is a study of American movies in which
preteen and teenage boys living in the suburbs are called upon to
combat a disruptive force that takes the form of popular cultural
figures of the fantastic—aliens, ghosts, vampires, demons, and
more. Beginning in the 1980s with Poltergeist and E.T. (both 1982)
and a cycle of films made by Amblin Entertainment, the suburban
fantastic established itself as a popular commercial model
combining coming-of-age melodramas with elements drawn from science
fiction, fantasy, and horror. The films that exemplify the subgenre
generally focus on a young male protagonist who, at the outset,
chafes at his stifling suburban milieu, wherein power is invested
in whiteness, maleness, and heterosexuality. A fantastic occurrence
intervenes - the arrival of an alien, a ghost, or some other
magical or otherworldly force - threatening this familiar order,
thrusting the young man - at first unwittingly - into the role of
defender and upholder of the social order. He is able to rescue the
suburban social order, and in doing so normalizes (for himself and
for the primarily white, male, adolescent audience) its values.
This study discusses some of the key instances of this subgenre,
such as Gremlins (1984), Back to the Future (1985), Jumanji (1995),
and Small Soldiers (1998), as well as its more recent resurgence in
Stranger Things (2016–) and IT (2017). Exploring the importance
of suburbia as a setting and the questionable ideological blindness
of its heroes, this book reveals these underappreciated Hollywood
films as the primary cinematic representation of
late-twentieth-century American childhood.
This book offers the first critical edition of the forty short
texts James Joyce called “epiphanies.” Among Joyce’s earliest
literary compositions, although published posthumously, the
epiphanies are a series of highly polished miniatures, many of
which Joyce reused in his later writings. By presenting the
epiphanies with background details and thorough annotations, this
edition provides a vivid insight into his art. Collected Epiphanies
of James Joyce features an introduction to the texts that
summarizes Joyce’s concept of epiphany; their biographical and
cultural context; their echoes and adaptations in Stephen Hero,
Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and
Finnegans Wake; and their critical reception and editorial history.
Each epiphany is transcribed directly from its original manuscript,
accompanied by extensive notes that include more information
specific to each piece, as well as textual variants. Styled as
prose poems, dramatic sketches, or combinations of the two, the
epiphanies can be seen not only as lyrical counterparts to
Joyce’s poetry in Chamber Music but also as bridges to the
writer’s landmark fiction. This collection demonstrates that the
epiphanies offer a paradigm case for studying the development of
Joyce’s work as a whole, prompting a reassessment of their
literary significance.
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