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Sky is Falling, The: How Vampires, Zombies, Androids & Superheroes Made America Great for Extremism

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Sky is Falling, The: How Vampires, Zombies, Androids & Superheroes Made America Great for Extremism

SKU: 9780241373859 Category: Product ID: 61192

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Title: Sky is Falling, The: How Vampires, Zombies, Androids & Superheroes Made America Great for Extremism
Author: BISKIND PETER
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 17/09/2018
Imprint: ALLEN LANE
Price: $40.00
Publishing status: Active

Are Batman and 24‘s Jack Bauer heroic loners defending our way of life – or right-wing vigilantes attacking it? Is Avatar just a National Geographic version of Star Wars or a passionate assault on capitalism? And what about Game of Thrones – sword and sorcery fantasy, or lesson in mainstream politics?

In The Sky is Falling! bestselling cultural critic Peter Biskind takes us on a dizzying ride across two decades of pop culture to show how the TV and movies we love have taught us to love political extremism. Welcome to a darkly pessimistic, apocalyptic world where winter has come, the dead are walking, and ultra violence, revenge and torture are all in a day’s work. Welcome to the new normal.

ISBN: 9780241373859
Pages: 256