@article{1450359,
      recid = {1450359},
      author = {Travers, Sean.},
      title = {Trauma in American popular culture and cult texts,  1980-2020 /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {This book examines trauma in late twentieth- and  twenty-first century American popular culture. Trauma has  become a central paradigm for reading contemporary American  culture. Since the early 1980s, an extensive range of  genres increasingly feature traumatised protagonists and  traumatic events. From traumatised superheroes in Hollywood  blockbusters to apocalyptic-themed television series,  trauma narratives abound. Although trauma is predominantly  associated with high culture, this project shows how  popular culture has become the most productive and  innovative area of trauma representation in America.  Examining film, television, animation, video games and cult  texts, this book develops a series of original paradigms  through which to understand trauma in popular culture.  These include: popular trauma texts engagement with  postmodern perspectives, formal techniques termed  competitive narration, polynarration and sceptical  scriptotherapy, and perpetrator trauma in metafictional  games. Dr Sean Travers is an independent scholar based in  Cork, Ireland. She obtained her PhD in University College  Cork and has published several articles about trauma,  popular culture, postmodernism, and American literature and  culture. .},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1450359},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13287-2},
}