Volume 17, Number 2 (Winter 2022)
Special Issue Topic: American Literary Naturalism and the Visual
Contents
Editor’s Note
Keith Newlin
Special Issue: American Literary Naturalism and the Visual
Guest Editors: Alan Gibbs and Sarah McCreedy
Essays
Val Lewton’s Naturalism and Historical Trauma: No Bed of Her Own, Cat People, The Seventh Victim, and I Walked with a Zombie
Donna M. Campbell
“Creating a visual landscape and seducing the audience”: Naturalist Engagement in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Donna Packer-Kinlaw
Naturalism, Determinism, and Fate in Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth
Alan Gibbs
Naturalism, Aesthetics, and the New Hollywood Cinema
Steven Frye
“Time is a Flat Circle”: The Naturalist Visual Aesthetic of Contemporary Television Crime Series
Gary Totten
“There is no other choice here”: New Naturalism in Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us
Sarah McCreedy