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The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture - Liberty vs. Authority in American Film and TV (Hardcover)
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The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture - Liberty vs. Authority in American Film and TV (Hardcover)
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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 America --
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. The Invisible Hand in
Popular Culture concludes with a discussion of the impact of 9/11
on film and television, and the new anxieties emerging in
contemporary alien-invasion narratives: the fear of a global
technocracy that seeks to destroy the nuclear family, religious
faith, local government, and other traditional bulwarks against the
absolute state.
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