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    Homeland Insecurity: Macho Globalization and Alien Blowback in Monsters (2015)
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    In:  Journal of popular culture : JPC : the official publication of the Popular Culture Association, Popular Literature Section (Comparative Literature II) of the Modern Language Association of America and the Popular Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association Vol. 48, No. 5 (2015), p. 1010-1029
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    ISSN: 0022-3840
    Language: English
    Titel der Quelle: Journal of popular culture : JPC : the official publication of the Popular Culture Association, Popular Literature Section (Comparative Literature II) of the Modern Language Association of America and the Popular Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association
    Publ. der Quelle: Malden, Mass. [u.a.] : Blackwell Publ
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 48, No. 5 (2015), p. 1010-1029
    DDC: 390
    Abstract: A small-budget, independent film written, directed, and visually enhanced by British filmmaker Gareth Edwards, Monsters (2010), features a story concept clearly with the potential for a big-budget, alien-invasion action film. However, this movie goes out of its way to disappoint such spectacular expectations for that popular genre.1 Monsters depicts a private-life view of an encounter with large monsters rather than the usual pitched and very public military struggle against such terrifying outsiders. The tone of the movie is intimate and meditative. Moreover, Edwards delivers a deliberate and observant political-economic treatment of such an incredible event, something not typical of most monster films. In effect, the action-packed backstory of an alien life form being brought to earth by NASA, but getting accidentally out of control with the consequence being an "Infected Zone" taking up the northern half of Mexico, is skillfully told in the background of Monsters. That is, through glimpses of television news reports and public service announcements, by reading the innumerable public signs, maps, and murals attempting to deal with the situation, or via the constant flyovers of fighter jets and helicopters or the ubiquitous wreckage of buildings, trains, boats, and military hardware, the viewer is able to piece together not only events, but the fact that six years of alien presence on earth bizarrely has naturalized this disaster. It seems that a migration/expansion of habitat by "the creatures" has become a yearly event producing an anxious time for both Mexico and the United States. The Mexican government and people are hard-pressed to cope with the outright invasion of their territory, while the US government and military work hard to keep the aliens--that they brought to earth--off American soil. Even though deliberately understated, this geopolitical backdrop is crucial to a reading of the main story of the film, that of two Americans in Mexico attempting to make their way back home through the Infected Zone. Although we watch romance bud amid peril between these two characters, the really noteworthy issues of Monsters are globalization, immigration, and militarism. Particularly in its river-passage and jungle-crossing sequences, the film is enriched by evocations of the film Apocalypse Now (1979) and, by extension, Joseph Conrad's famous novella Heart of Darkness (1899). As a result, as in those works, the imperialism of the hegemon and the belligerence of its dominant masculinity are the real monsters of Edwards's film. Thus, we have in this small, brooding monster movie a deliberate warning against, arguably, the current manifestation of western hegemonic masculinity: chickenhawk CEOs.
    Note: Copyright: © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc , Copyright: © COPYRIGHT 2015 Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
    DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12338
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    URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12338/abstract
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    Spielberg's Tale of Two Americas: Postmodern Monsters in War of the Worlds (2011)
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    In:  Journal of popular culture : JPC : the official publication of the Popular Culture Association, Popular Literature Section (Comparative Literature II) of the Modern Language Association of America and the Popular Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association Vol. 44, No. 5 (2011), p. 934-954
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    ISSN: 0022-3840
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    Titel der Quelle: Journal of popular culture : JPC : the official publication of the Popular Culture Association, Popular Literature Section (Comparative Literature II) of the Modern Language Association of America and the Popular Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association
    Publ. der Quelle: Malden, Mass. [u.a.] : Blackwell Publ
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 44, No. 5 (2011), p. 934-954
    DDC: 390
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    Bourgeois Rakes in Wedding Crashers: Feudal to Neo‐Liberal Articulations in Modern Comedic Discourse (2013)
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    In:  Journal of popular culture : JPC : the official publication of the Popular Culture Association, Popular Literature Section (Comparative Literature II) of the Modern Language Association of America and the Popular Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association Vol. 46, No. 2 (2013), p. 338-357
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    ISSN: 0022-3840
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    Titel der Quelle: Journal of popular culture : JPC : the official publication of the Popular Culture Association, Popular Literature Section (Comparative Literature II) of the Modern Language Association of America and the Popular Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association
    Publ. der Quelle: Malden, Mass. [u.a.] : Blackwell Publ
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 46, No. 2 (2013), p. 338-357
    DDC: 390
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    Chapter 5 Special Topic Rants (2021)
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    ISBN: 9780367626815 , 9780367654092
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (27 p.)
    Keywords: White Monster,Horror Movie,Peele’s Film,Young Man,Handmaid’s Tale,Black Mirror,Speculative Satire,White Supremacist,Plays Back,Elisabeth Moss,Young Black Men,Horror Genre,SLS,TSA,Face To Face,Make Up,Board Games,Brain Computer Interface,Black Men,Deer Head,Workplace Abuse,Jog ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATJ Television ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC1 Popular culture
    Abstract: Since 1980, when neoliberal and neoconservative forces began their hostile takeover of western culture, a new type of political satire has emerged that works to unmask and deter those toxic doctrines. Literary and cultural critic Kirk Combe calls this new form of satire the Rant. The Rant is grim, highly imaginative, and complex in its blending of genres. It mixes facets of satire, science fiction, and monster tale to produce widely consumed spectacles—major studio movies, popular television/streaming series, bestselling novels—designed to disturb and to provoke. The Rant targets what Combe calls the Regime. Simply put, the Regime is the sum of the dangerous social, economic, and political orthodoxies spurred on by neoliberal and neoconservative polity. Such practices include free-market capitalism, corporatism, militarism, religiosity, imperialism, racism, patriarchy, and so on. In the Rant, then, we have a unique and wholly contemporary genre of political expression and protest: speculative satire
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    Chapter 1 The Rant (2021)
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    ISBN: 9780367626815 , 9780367654092
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (38 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history and criticism ; Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers ; Television ; International relations ; Political ideologies and movements ; Popular culture ; Menippean Satire,Modern Satire,Cognitive Estrangement,post-Marxist Theory,Speculative Satire,Manifest Fiction,Fake News Program,MaddAddam,Science Fiction,Speculative Fiction,Roundabout,Satiric Tradition,Feminist Fabulation,Modern Power,Nietzschean Affirmation,Situational Satire,Monster Tale,MaddAddam Trilogy,Timeless,Strange Newness,Frees Women,Possessive Individualism,Social Antagonism,Fantastic Voyage,Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
    Abstract: Since 1980, when neoliberal and neoconservative forces began their hostile takeover of western culture, a new type of political satire has emerged that works to unmask and deter those toxic doctrines. Literary and cultural critic Kirk Combe calls this new form of satire the Rant. The Rant is grim, highly imaginative, and complex in its blending of genres. It mixes facets of satire, science fiction, and monster tale to produce widely consumed spectacles—major studio movies, popular television/streaming series, bestselling novels—designed to disturb and to provoke. The Rant targets what Combe calls the Regime. Simply put, the Regime is the sum of the dangerous social, economic, and political orthodoxies spurred on by neoliberal and neoconservative polity. Such practices include free-market capitalism, corporatism, militarism, religiosity, imperialism, racism, patriarchy, and so on. In the Rant, then, we have a unique and wholly contemporary genre of political expression and protest: speculative satire
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    Speculative Satire in Contemporary Literature and Film : Rant Against the Regime (2021)
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    ISBN: 9781003110491 , 9780367626815 , 9780367654092
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
    Keywords: Literature: history and criticism ; Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers ; Television ; International relations ; Political ideologies and movements ; Popular culture ; satire,political satire,science fiction,speculative fiction,dystopia,dystopian fiction,neoliberalism,neoconservatism,genre studies,cultural studies,capitalism,individualism,surveillance,marxism,socialism,Neoliberal corporatism,Speculative satire,Literature and film,Science fiction,Terry Gilliam's film,Speculative Satire,MaddAddam Trilogy,Young Man,MaddAddam,Timeless,Handmaid’s Tale,Cognitive Estrangement,Surveillance Capitalism,Monster Tale,Workplace Abuse,Blade Runner,Shoshana Zuboff,Black Mirror,Menippean Satire,Roundabout,Feminist Fabulation,Lives,Chronic,America,North American Free Trade Agreement,Modern Satire,White Monster,International Monetary Fund,Horror Movie,God’s Gardeners
    Abstract: Since 1980, when neoliberal and neoconservative forces began their hostile takeover of western culture, a new type of political satire has emerged that works to unmask and deter those toxic doctrines. Literary and cultural critic Kirk Combe calls this new form of satire the Rant. The Rant is grim, highly imaginative, and complex in its blending of genres. It mixes facets of satire, science fiction, and monster tale to produce widely consumed spectacles—major studio movies, popular television/streaming series, bestselling novels—designed to disturb and to provoke. The Rant targets what Combe calls the Regime. Simply put, the Regime is the sum of the dangerous social, economic, and political orthodoxies spurred on by neoliberal and neoconservative polity. Such practices include free-market capitalism, corporatism, militarism, religiosity, imperialism, racism, patriarchy, and so on. In the Rant, then, we have a unique and wholly contemporary genre of political expression and protest: speculative satire
    Note: English
    URL: teilw. kostenfrei
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