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Fear and loathing worldwide gonzo journalism beyond Hunter S. Thompson / edited by Robert Alexander and Christine Isager.
| Other author | Alexander, Robert, 1957- |
| Other author | Isager, Christine. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. |
| Description | xii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | First Waves, Currents of Tradition. Gonzo Down Under: Matthew Thompson and the Literary and Political Legacy of Hunter S. Thompson / Christopher Kremmer -- Diffusion of the Inimitable: Helge Timmerberg and the Advent of German Gonzo / Tobias Eberwein -- Gonzo Journalism in France: Another Kind of Journalism is Possible / Honorine Reussard -- Gonzo Brazilian Style: Arthur Veríssimo's Adaptations of Thompson's Journalism / Monica Martinez and Mateus Yuri Passos -- Gonzo as Socio-Political Intervention. Australia's Elisabeth Wynhausen and a Century of Gonzo Ethnography / Sue Joseph -- Loathing in Southern Denmark: Gonzo Ethos in a Showdown with Tabloid Journalism / Christine Isager - "Among Madmen and Crooks": Stella Braam's Strange and Terrible Saga of Total Immersion in Amsterdam / Hilde Van Belle -- The Truth is Always Gonzo: David Leigh, Politics, and the Frontiers of Secrecy / Nick Nuttall -- Gender and the Osmotic Gonzo Body. "Mastering the Art of Being Powerless and Completely Stupid": Australian Gonzo as l'Écriture Masculine / Fiona Giles -- La Revista Prohibida Para las Mujeres: Gonzo By Women in SoHo Magazine of Colombia, South America / Carlos A. Cortés-Martínez, Berkley Hudson, and Joy Jenkins -- The Return of Gonzo through the Female Body: Gabriela Wiener and the Journalist as a Sexual Vortex / Pablo Calvi -- Edgework, Fantasy, and Truth. Scatological Anecdotes, Heavy Drinking, and Backpacker Culture: Gonzo humor and Edgework in Contemporary Finnish Journalism / Joonas Koivukoski and Janne Zareff -- Fear and Loathing in the Desert of the Real: Hunter S. Thompson, "Hannibal Elector," and the 2014 South African General Election / Robert Alexander -- Cultural Insight by Way of Distortion: Ziemowit Szczerek's Introduction and Immediate Deconstruction of Gonzo in Poland / Mateusz Zimnoch -- The Continuing Story of Gonzo Worldwide. The Hijacking of "Gonzo": In Name Only, Hunter S. Thompson's Style is Everywhere on the Internet / Jacqueline Marino -- Future Gonzo by Spider Jerusalem: Thompson's Journalism Adapted to the World of the Graphic Novel / Ashlee Nelson -- Afterword: Gonzo Without End, Amen / William McKeen |
| Abstract | "The label "Gonzo journalism" is challenged, questioned, and ultimately expanded by this wide-ranging, multinational collection"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018029363 |
| ISBN | 9781501333910 (hardback : alk. paper) |
Availability
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |