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The Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television:
Twenty-First-Century Bust Culture sheds light on how imaginary
works of fiction, film, and television reflect, refract, and
respond to the recessionary times specific to the twenty-first
century, a sustained period of economic crisis that has earned the
title the "Great Recession." This collection takes as its focus
"Bust Culture," a concept that refers to post-crash popular
culture, specifically the kind mass produced by multinational
corporations in the age of media conglomeration, which is inflected
by diminishment, influenced by scarcity, and infused with anxiety.
The multidisciplinary contributors collected here examine mass
culture not typically included in discussions of the financial
meltdown, from disaster films to reality TV hoarders, the horror
genre to reactionary representations of women, Christian right
radio to Batman, television characters of color to graphic novels
and literary fiction. The collected essays treat our busted culture
as a seismograph that registers the traumas of collapse, and locate
their pop artifacts along a spectrum of ideological fantasies,
social erasures, and profound fears inspired by the Great
Recession. What they discover from these unlikely indicators of the
recession is a mix of regressive, progressive, and bemused texts in
need of critical translation.
The Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television:
Twenty-First-Century Bust Culture sheds light on how imaginary
works of fiction, film, and television reflect, refract, and
respond to the recessionary times specific to the twenty-first
century, a sustained period of economic crisis that has earned the
title the "Great Recession." This collection takes as its focus
"Bust Culture," a concept that refers to post-crash popular
culture, specifically the kind mass produced by multinational
corporations in the age of media conglomeration, which is inflected
by diminishment, influenced by scarcity, and infused with anxiety.
The multidisciplinary contributors collected here examine mass
culture not typically included in discussions of the financial
meltdown, from disaster films to reality TV hoarders, the horror
genre to reactionary representations of women, Christian right
radio to Batman, television characters of color to graphic novels
and literary fiction. The collected essays treat our busted culture
as a seismograph that registers the traumas of collapse, and locate
their pop artifacts along a spectrum of ideological fantasies,
social erasures, and profound fears inspired by the Great
Recession. What they discover from these unlikely indicators of the
recession is a mix of regressive, progressive, and bemused texts in
need of critical translation.
Christie Plays Field Hockey is author Susan O'Hara's fourth book in
the series of books designed to inspire the joy of playing team
sports. The books revolve around her children, Tim and Christie,
and the sports they played when they were young. Lovingly
illustrated by Rebecca Barrett, this next exciting book in the
series was inspired by her daughter Christie learning to play field
hockey. The young reader can follow along with Christie as she
tries something new - being a goalie - and falls in love with field
hockey and her team. Follow along as Christie finds success and fun
playing field hockey, a game she had never considered playing
before. Enjoy the books with your sons and daughters as they learn
about the joys of teamwork and sports. Susan O'Hara lives in
Southwest Florida with her husband, Steve. She loves to play
tennis, golf and yoga. She enjoyed watching her children play many
high school sports, and then college field hockey and football. Her
other books are Tim's First Baseball Game, Tim's First Soccer Game,
and Christie Plays Softball. Next up is Tim's First Football Game
and Christie Plays Lacrosse Publisher's website: http:
//sbpra.com/SusanOHara
Christie's love of baseball and her friends inspire her to give up
baseball and join her friends' softball team. What will happen to
Christie when she takes the risk of giving up something she loves
and faces this new and exciting challenge in life? The fun story
Christie Plays Softball was inspired by the author's daughter,
Christie, whose love of life and sports has led her to a successful
college field hockey career. Susan O'Hara resides in southwest
Florida with her husband, Steve, where she is involved in her
community and enjoys tennis, golf, yoga, walking, and reading. More
than anything else, however, she enjoys watching her children play
college field hockey and football. She has already published Tim's
First Baseball Game and Tim's First Soccer Game and is working on
the next books in her sports series for children, Christie Plays
Field Hockey and Tim's First Football Game. Publisher's website:
http: //sbpra.com/SusanOHara
When an older boy offers to teach Tim soccer, Tim is eager to learn
more about the game. He signs up to join a team, led by a wonderful
coach. When the team needs a goalie, Tim volunteers even though
what he loves is scoring goals and has never played goalie. Can he
step into this important role? What will Tim learn about, beyond
playing the game, as he takes a risk and faces this huge test of
ability and teamwork? Follow the fun adventure in Tim's First
Soccer Game. Young readers will delight in the action as they learn
to always do their best, both in sports and in life. Susan O'Hara
resides in southwest Florida with her husband, where she is
involved in her community and enjoys tennis, golf, yoga, and
walking. More than anything else, however, O'Hara enjoys watching
her children play college field hockey and football. She has
already published Tim's First Baseball Game and is working on the
next books in her sports series for children - Tim's First Football
Game, Tim's First Basketball Game, Christie Plays Softball, and
Christie Plays Field Hockey. Publisher's website:
http://sbpra.com/SusanO'Hara
The congregants thanked God that they weren't like all those
hopeless people outside the church, bound for hell. So the Westboro
Baptist Church's Sundayservice began, and Rebecca Barrett-Fox, a
curious observer, wondered why anyone would seek spiritual
sustenance through other people's damnation. It is a question that
piques many a witness to Westboro's more visible activity-the "GOD
HATES FAGS" picketing of funerals. In God Hates, sociologist
Barrett-Fox takes us behind the scenes of Topeka's Westboro Baptist
Church. The first full ethnography of this infamouspresence on
America's Religious Right, her book situates the church's story in
the context of American religious history-and reveals as much about
the uneasy state of Christian practice in our day as it does about
the workings of the Westboro Church and Fred Phelps, its founder.
God Hates traces WBC's theologicalbeliefs to a brand of
hyper-Calvinist thought reaching back to the Puritans-an
extremeCalvinism, emphasizing predestination, that has proven as
off-putting as Westboro's actions, even for other Baptists. And
yet, in examining Westboro's role in conservative politics and its
contentious relationship with other fundamentalist activist
groups,Barrett-Fox reveals how the church's message of national
doom in fact reflects beliefs at the core of much of the Religious
Right's rhetoric. Westboro's aggressively offensive public
activities actually serve to soften the anti-gay theology of
moremainstream conservative religious activism. With an eye to the
church's protest at military funerals, she also considers why
thepublic has responded so differently to these than to Westboro's
anti-LGBT picketing.The congregants thanked God that they weren't
like all those hopeless people outside the church, bound for hell.
So the Westboro Baptist Church's Sunday service began, and Rebecca
Barrett-Fox, a curious observer, wondered why anyone would seek
spiritual sustenance through other people's damnation. It is a
question that piques many a witness to Westboro's more visible
activity-the "GOD HATES FAGS" picketing of funerals. In God Hates,
sociologist Barrett-Fox takes us behind the scenes of Topeka's
Westboro Baptist Church. The first full ethnography of this
infamous presence on America's Religious Right, her book situates
the church's story in the context of American religious history-and
reveals as much about the uneasy state of Christian practice in our
day as it does about the workings of the Westboro Church and Fred
Phelps, its founder. God Hates traces WBC's theological beliefs to
a brand of hyper-Calvinist thought reaching back to the Puritans-an
extreme Calvinism, emphasizing predestination, that has proven as
off-putting as Westboro's actions, even for other Baptists. And
yet, in examining Westboro's role in conservative politics and its
contentious relationship with other fundamentalist activist groups,
Barrett-Fox reveals how the church's message of national doom in
fact reflects beliefs at the core of much of the Religious Right's
rhetoric. Westboro's aggressively offensive public activities
actually serve to soften the anti-gay theology of more mainstream
conservative religious activism. With an eye to the church's
protest at military funerals, she also considers why the public has
responded so differently to these than to Westboro's anti-LGBT
picketing. With its history of Westboro Baptist Church and its
founder, and its profiles of defectors, this book offers a complex,
close-up view of a phenomenon on the fringes of American
Christianity-and a broader, disturbing view of the mainstream
theology it at once masks and reflects.
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