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The post-liberal imagination : political scenes from the American cultural landscape / Bruce Baum.
Van Pelt Library JC574.2.U6 B38 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baum, Bruce David, 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Liberalism--United States.
- Liberalism.
- Popular culture--Political aspects--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Political culture--United States.
- Political culture.
- Popular culture--Political aspects.
- United States.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.
- United States--Politics and government--2009-.
- Physical Description:
- x, 257 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- Summary:
- "In The Post-Liberal Imagination, Bruce Baum approaches American liberalism 'in a critical spirit' by examining the relationship between popular culture and politics in the Bush-Obama era. The book explores how contemporary popular culture arguably plays a larger formative role in contemporary US politics. Through analyzing movies, television, and popular music, the author discusses how these cultural productions illuminate notable political scenes of the American cultural landscape. In so doing, he provokes us to rethink the liberal notions - or liberal imaginings - of democracy, equality, racism, dissent, and animal rights"-- Provided by publisher.
- "In The Post-Liberal Imagination, Bruce Baum approaches American liberalism "in a critical spirit" by examining the relationship between popular culture and politics. The book analyzes movies, television, and popular music to rethink the liberal views of democracy, equality, racism, dissent, and animal rights in the Bush-Obama era"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1. Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
- 2. Humpday, Soul Power, and the Politics of Hip
- 3. The Hero America Deserves? The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, and the Liberalism of Fear
- 4. Apes, Humans, and Other animals: Project Nim and rise of the planet of the apes
- 5. Hollywood's Crisis of Capitalism: Inside Job, The Company Men, and the myth of a good capitalism
- 6. Occupy Wall Street, Steve Jobs's "Genius," and Mad Men: Reflections on the American Democratic Imagination
- 7. Hollywood on Race and Racism in the Age of Obama
- 8. President Barack Obama and the "White Problem."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137560322
- 1137560320
- OCLC:
- 933780592
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