Transgressive Contemporary UK Novels: Reality/unreality in "Natasha"

LISTS FOR FINAL

Use these lists to get ideas for approaching the final, which will be 12+ pages. Remember: it's about why taboo content of a certain kind appears in culture: the topic is really culture, the popularity of this stuff, the meaning of certain themes: what does it say about our times (meaning relatively recent times)???

List one: horrorshow

1. Slasher films

2. Money

3. American Psycho

4. Crash

5. Cock and Bull

List two: male friendship

1. Fight Club

2. 1970s film "Midnight Cowboy"

3. Crash

4. Money

5. Trainspotting

List three: androgyny

1. 1980s pop stars

2. Ballard in Crash

3. Sophia in Nights

4. Midnight's Children

5. Cock and Bull

List four: paranoia / memory

1. Fight Club

2. "Total Recall"

3. Crash

4. Money

5. Nights

List five: altered states / violence

1. "Requiem for a Dream"

2. Money

3. Closer (Cooper)

4. Crash

5. Trainspotting

List six: damaged/

resilient bodies

1. "Crank"

2. Money

3. Nights

4. Crash

5. Because They Wanted To

List seven: "double"

jeopardy

1. Crash

2. "Adaptation"

3. Money

4. Fight Club

5. Cock and Bull

List eight: dialect and

slang

1. Money

2. Cormac McCarthy

3. Nights

4. Gangster rap

5. Trainspotting

6. Clockwork Orange

Transgressive Contemporary UK Novels

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

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