American Popular Culture in the Era of Terror - Falling Skies, Dark Knights Rising and Collapsing Cultures (2015).pdf Gooner

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Publisher: Praeger (September 15, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1440835624
ISBN-13: 978-1440835629

Bringing together the most popular genres of the 21st century, this book argues that Americans have entered a new era of narrative dominated by the fear―and wish fulfillment―of the breakdown of authority and terror itself.

* Provides an interesting new framework in which to examine popular culture

* Examines films, television shows, and primary texts such as novels for evidence of cultural anxiety and a preoccupation with terror

* Offers insightful and original interpretations of primary texts

* Suggests possible conclusions about cultural anxiety regarding breakdowns of tradition and authority