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Fear and loathing worldwide : Gonzo journalism beyond Hunter S. Thompson /
For more than 40 years, the radically subjective style of participatory journalism known as Gonzo was closely, almost inextricably, associated with the American writer Hunter S. Thompson. Over time, however, that label has been expanded to include the work of other journalists, many from countries o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Gonzo Down Under: Matthew Thompson and the literary and political legacy of Hunter S. Thompson; 2 Diffusion of the inimitable: Helge Timmerberg and the advent of German Gonzo; 3 Gonzo journalism in France: "another kind of journalism is possible"; 4 Gonzo Brazilian style: Arthur Veríssimo's adaptations of Thompson's journalism; 5 Australia's Elisabeth Wynhausen and a century of Gonzo ethnography; 6 Loathing in southern Denmark: Gonzo ethos in a showdown with tabloid journalism
- 7 "Among madmen and crooks": Stella Braam's strange and terrible saga of total immersion in Amsterdam8 The truth is always Gonzo: David Leigh, politics, and the frontiers of secrecy; 9 "Mastering the art of being powerless and completely stupid": Australian Gonzo as l'écriture masculine; 10 SoHo, la revista prohibida para las mujeres: Gonzo by women in a Colombian men's magazine; 11 The return of Gonzo through the female body: Gabriela Wiener and the journalist as a sexual vortex
- 12 Scatological anecdotes, heavy drinking, and backpacker culture: Gonzo humor and edgework in contemporary Finnish journalism13 Fear and loathing in the desert of the real: Hunter S. Thompson, "Hannibal Elector," and the 2014 South African general election; 14 Cultural insight by way of distortion: Ziemowit Szczerek's introduction and immediate deconstruction of Gonzo in Poland; 15 The hijacking of "Gonzo": in name only, Hunter S. Thompson's style is everywhere on the internet; 16 Future Gonzo by Spider Jerusalem: Thompson's journalism adapted to the world of the graphic novel