The invisible hand in popular culture liberty versus authority in American film and TV
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- ISBN: 0813140846 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780813140841 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780813140834 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0813140838 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780813140827 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 081314082X (hardcover : alk. paper)
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1 online resource. - Publisher: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2012.
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General Note: | CatBulkString:jan.03.13 Description based upon print version of record. Multi-user. CatMonthString:june.15 Multi-User. CatMonthString:jan.13 |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: popular culture and spontaneous order, or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the tube -- Freedom and order in the Western. The Western and Western drama: John Ford's The searchers and The oresteia -- The original frontier: Gene Roddenberry's apprenticeship for Star trek in Have gun, will travel -- Order out of the mud: Deadwood and the state of nature -- Maverick creators and Maverick heroes. Mars attacks! Tim Burton and the ideology of The flying saucer movie -- Flying solo: The aviator and entrepreneurial vision -- Cartman shrugged: the invisible gnomes and the invisible hand in South park -- Edgar G. Ulmer: the aesthete from the Alps meets the king of the B's -- The fall of the House of Ulmer: Europe versus America in the gothic vision of The black cat -- America as wasteland in detour: film noir and The Frankfurt school -- 9/11, globalization, and new challenges to freedom. The truth is still out there: The X-files and 9/11 -- Un-American gothic: the alien invasion narrative and global modernity. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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