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1 online resource (xii, 334 pages) |
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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 other than the U.S. Literary journalists around the world often approach unconventional material in risky ways, placing themselves in the middle of off-beat stories, and relate those accounts in the supercharged rhetoric of Gonzo. In some cases, Thompson's influence is apparent, even explicit; in others, writers have crafted their journalistic provocations independently, only later to have that work labelled "Gonzo." In either case, Gonzo has clearly become an international phenomenon. Scholars from fourteen countries discuss writers, male and female, from Europe, the Americas, and Australia, whose work bears unmistakable traces of the mutant Gonzo gene. In each chapter, "Gonzo" emerges as a powerful but unstable signifier, read and practiced with different accents and emphases in the various national, cultural, political, and journalistic contexts in which it has erupted. Whether they occur in Colombia, Greece, Australia, Brazil, or Finland, and whether their writers are immersed in the Dutch crack scene, or exploring the Polish version of Route 66, or on the trail of the 2014 South African General Election, these reports are driven by the same fearless disdain for convention and profound commitment to rattling received opinion with which the "outlaw journalist" Thompson scorched his way into the American consciousness in the 1960s, '70s, and beyond |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 31, 2018). |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Thompson, Hunter S. -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Thompson, Hunter S. (OCoLC)fst00002342
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Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Press & journalism.
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Prose: non-fiction.
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Media studies.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
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Journalists. (OCoLC)fst00984188
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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Electronic books.
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Biography.
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Biographies.
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Alexander, Robert, 1957- editor.
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Isager, Christine, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fear and Loathing Worldwide. [Place of publication not identified] : Bloomsbury USA Academic 2018 9781501333910 (OCoLC)990288529 |
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9781501333927 (electronic book) |
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1501333925 (electronic book) |
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9781501333934 (electronic book) |
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1501333933 (electronic book) |
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