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

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

Author : Peter Biskind

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Highlights

English

Language

NA

Edition

256

Pages

9780241373859

ISBN-13

0241373859

ISBN-10

Allen Lane

Publisher

215 mm

Height

136 mm

Width

20 mm

Thickness

Paperback

Binding

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'You'll never look at your favourite movies and TV shows the same way again. And you shouldn't' Steven Soderbergh
'Insanely readable' Slavoj Zizek
'Your book was ... like a bag of pot, with me saying, 'I'm not gonna smoke.' But I was insatiable' Quentin Tarantino on Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

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 - from Game of Thrones and 24 to Homeland and Iron Man - 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.