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<span><span>The Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television: Twenty-first-Century Bust Culture</span><span> examines pop artifacts not typically included in discussions of the financial meltdown; the collected essays treat our busted culture as a seismograph that registers the traumas of collapse. In accessible, intellectually rigorous prose, each essay locates their subject – from disaster films to graphic novels – along a spectrum of ideological fantasies, social erasures, and profound anxieties inspired by the Great Recession. </span></span>

<span><span>Introduction: Creative Documentation of Creative Destruction </span></span>
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<span><span>Kirk Boyle and Daniel Mrozowski</span></span>
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<span><span>Section I: Film </span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 1: The Imagination of Economic Disaster: Eco-Catastrophe Films of the</span></span>
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<span><span>Great Recession</span></span>
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<span><span>Kirk Boyle</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 2: Real-to-Reel Recessionary Horrors in Drag Me to Hell and Contagion</span></span>
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<span><span>April Miller</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 3: Horror at the Homestead: The (Re)possession of American Property in Paranormal Activity and Paranormal Activity II</span></span>
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<span><span>James Stone</span></span>
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<span><span>Section II: Fiction </span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 4: “We are the walking dead”: Zombie Literature in Recession-Era America</span></span>
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<span><span>Lance Rubin</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 5: “Crash Fiction”: American Literary Novels of the Global Financial Crisis</span></span>
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<span><span>Daniel Mattingly</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 6: Mommy Porn, More or Less: Fifty Shades of Grey and Conservative Feminism in the New Economy</span></span>
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<span><span>Sarah Domet</span></span>
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<span><span>Section III: Television </span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 7: And They Lived Happily Ever After…Or Not at All: (Un)Imagining African Americans in Recession-Era Popular Culture</span></span>
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<span><span>Maryann Erigha</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 8: Latino Liminality, Exclusion and Erasure in Great Recession Television: The Case of Treme and Friday Night Lights</span></span>
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<span><span>Charli Valdez</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 9: Masters, Servants, and the Effaced Middle Classes of Downton Abbey, The Dark Knight Rises, and Falling Skies</span></span>
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<span><span>Jesseca Cornelson</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 10: From Hoarders to Pickers: Salvage Aesthetics and Reality Television in The Great Recession</span></span>
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<span><span>Daniel Mrozowski</span></span>
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<span><span>Section IV: Multimedia </span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 11: Congress at the Kitchen Table: Religious Right Applications of Moral Home Economics to Federal Economic Policy</span></span>
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<span><span>Rebecca Barrett-Fox</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 12: Graphic Radicals: Understanding the Crash and the Art of Resistance</span></span>
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<span><span>Sarah Hamblin</span></span>
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<span><span>Kirk Boyle</span><span> is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Literature and Language at the University of North Carolina Asheville. </span></span>
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<span><span>Dan Mrozowski </span><span>is a visiting assistant professor in the English Department at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, where he teaches courses in American literature, critical theory, and crime fiction.</span></span>