Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (489 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0813140838
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081314082X
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0813140846
,
128369574X
,
9780813140834
,
9780813140827
,
9780813140841
,
9781283695749
Inhalt:
Popular culture often champions freedom as the fundamentally American way of life and celebrates the virtues of independence and self-reliance. But film and television have also explored the tension between freedom and other core values, such as order and political stability. What may look like healthy, productive, and creative freedom from one point of view may look like chaos, anarchy, and a source of destructive conflict from another. Film and television continually pose the question: Can Americans deal with their problems on their own, or must they rely on political elites to manage their lives? In this groundbreaking work, Paul A. Cantor explores the ways in which television shows such as Star Trek, The X-Files, South Park, and Deadwood and films such as The Aviator and Mars Attacks! have portrayed both top-down and bottom-up models of order. Drawing on the works of John Locke, Adam Smith, Alexis de Tocqueville, and other proponents of freedom, Cantor contrasts the classical liberal vision of American--particularly its emphasis on the virtues of spontaneous order--with the Marxist understanding of the "culture industry" and the Hobbesian model of absolute state control
Inhalt:
Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Introduction to Part One; 1. The Western and Western Drama; 2. The Original Frontier; 3. Order Out of the Mid; Introduction to Part Two; 4. Mars Attacks!; 5. Flying Solo; 6. Cartman Shrugged; Introduction to Part Three; 7. The Fall of the House of Ulmer; 8. America as Wasteland in Detour; Introduction to Part Four; 9. The Truth Is Still Out There; 10. Un-American Gothic; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cantor, Paul A. (Paul Arthur), 1945- Invisible hand in popular culture Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2012
Sprache:
Englisch
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