Dr Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, a visiting senior lecturer with the Department of English, recently published two co-edited books.
The Double Binds of Neoliberalism: Theory and Culture After 1968 (Rowman and Littlefield 2022) is co-edited with Guillaume Collett and Iain MacKenzie (School of Politics and International Relations, and Centre for Critical Thought, University of Kent) and collects 11 essays by scholars at different disciplinary intersections.
In the wake of new far-right populisms, the fragmentation of progressive global narratives and the dismantling of economic globalisation, there are signs that neoliberalism is beginning to enter its death throes. Using 1968 as one of the inaugural moments of neoliberalism, this interdisciplinary collection is a critical and comparative resource that re-examines the significance and legacy of the global 1968 uprisings from today’s vantage point.
For scholars and students alike, this interdisciplinary collection will help readers understand why the global uprisings of 1968 continue to resonate and what this means for theory and culture today.
Further details are available online.
The editors will be introducing the book and discussing further directions for related research in a Works in Progress Seminar Series (WIPSS) seminar at UM (details TBA). Video Games and Comedy (Palgrave Macmillan 2022) is co-edited with Jaroslav Å velch (Department of Media Studies, Charles University) and Tomasz Z. Majkowski (Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University).
Video Games and Comedy is the first edited volume to explore the intersections between comedy and video games. This pioneering book collects 18 chapters from a diverse group of scholars, covering a wide range of approaches and examining the relationship between video games, humour, and comedy from many different angles. The first section of the book includes chapters that engage with theories of comedy and humour, adapting them to the specifics of the video game medium.
The second section explores humour in the contexts, cultures, and communities that give rise to and spring up around video games, focusing on phenomena such as in-jokes, player self-reflexivity, and player/fan creativity. The third section offers case studies of individual games or game series, exploring the use of irony as well as sexual and racial humour in video games.
Further details are available online.
Dr Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone is also a casual lecturer with the Institute of Digital Games and MaKS.
