Fear and loathing worldwide : gonzo journalism beyond Hunter S. Thompson / edited by Robert Alexander and Christine Isager.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alexander, Robert, 1957- editor.

Isager, Christine, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thompson, Hunter S--Influence.

Thompson, Hunter S.

Gonzo journalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 334 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Summary:

"For more than 40 years, the radically subjective style of participatory journalism known as Gonzo has been inextricably associated with the American writer Hunter S. Thompson. Around the world, however, other journalists 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 journalism has clearly become an international phenomenon. In Fear and Loathing Worldwide, scholars from fourteen countries discuss writers from Europe, the Americas, Africa 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 immersed in the Dutch crack scene, exploring the Polish version of Route 66, following the trail of the 2014 South African General Election, or committing unspeakable acts on the bus to Turku, the writers described in this volume 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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

First Waves, Currents of Tradition. Gonzo Down Under: Matthew Thompson and the Literary and Political Legacy of Hunter S. Thompson

Christopher Kremmer

Diffusion of the Inimitable: Helge Timmerberg and the Advent of German Gonzo

Tobias Eberwein

Gonzo Journalism in France: Another Kind of Journalism is Possible

Honorine Reussard

Gonzo Brazilian Style: Arthur Veríssimo's Adaptations of Thompson's Journalism

Monica Martinez and Mateus Yuri Passos

Gonzo as Socio-Political Intervention. Australia's Elisabeth Wynhausen and a Century of Gonzo Ethnography

Sue Joseph

Loathing in Southern Denmark: Gonzo Ethos in a Showdown with Tabloid Journalism

Christine Isager - "Among Madmen and Crooks": Stella Braam's Strange and Terrible Saga of Total Immersion in Amsterdam

Hilde Van Belle

The Truth is Always Gonzo: David Leigh, Politics, and the Frontiers of Secrecy

Nick Nuttall

Gender and the Osmotic Gonzo Body. "Mastering the Art of Being Powerless and Completely Stupid": Australian Gonzo as l'Écriture Masculine

Fiona Giles

La Revista Prohibida Para las Mujeres: Gonzo By Women in SoHo Magazine of Colombia, South America

Carlos A. Cortés-Martinez, Berkley Hudson, and Joy Jenkins

The Return of Gonzo through the Female Body: Gabriela Wiener and the Journalist as a Sexual Vortex

Pablo Calvi

Edgework, Fantasy, and Truth. Scatological Anecdotes, Heavy Drinking, and Backpacker Culture: Gonzo humor and Edgework in Contemporary Finnish Journalism

Joonas Koivukoski and Janne Zareff

Fear and Loathing in the Desert of the Real: Hunter S. Thompson, "Hannibal Elector," and the 2014 South African General Election

Robert Alexander

Cultural Insight by Way of Distortion: Ziemowit Szczerek's Introduction and Immediate Deconstruction of Gonzo in Poland

Mateusz Zimnoch

The Continuing Story of Gonzo Worldwide. The Hijacking of "Gonzo": In Name Only, Hunter S. Thompson's Style is Everywhere on the Internet

Jacqueline Marino

Future Gonzo by Spider Jerusalem: Thompson's Journalism Adapted to the World of the Graphic Novel

Ashlee Nelson

Afterword: Gonzo Without End, Amen

William McKeen.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501333941

1501333941

9781501333927

1501333925

9781501333934

1501333933

OCLC:

1090442952