A Sunday Times (London), Best Book of 2018 "A thoughtful,
entertaining, and occasionally profound critical study of the texts
that entertain, move and, sometimes, shape us." --The Spectator
(London) "A bold, witty, and brilliantly argued analysis of the
role pop culture has played in the rise of American extremism."
--Ruth Reichl "You'll never look at your favorite movies and TV
shows the same way again. And you shouldn't." --Steven Soderbergh A
bestselling cultural journalist shows how pop culture prepared
Americans to embrace extreme politics Almost everything has been
invoked to account for Trump's victory and the rise of the
alt-right, from job loss to racism to demography--everything, that
is, except popular culture. In The Sky Is Falling bestselling
cultural journalist Peter Biskind dives headlong into two decades
of popular culture--from superhero franchises such as the Dark
Knight, X-Men, and the Avengers and series like The Walking Dead
and Game of Thrones to thrillers like Homeland and 24--and emerges
to argue that these shows are saturated with the values that are
currently animating our extreme politics. Where once centrist
institutions and their agents--cops and docs, soldiers and
scientists, as well as educators, politicians, and experts of every
stripe--were glorified by mainstream Hollywood, the heroes of
today's movies and TV, whether far right or far left, have
overthrown this quaint ideological consensus. Many of our shows
dramatize extreme circumstances--an apocalypse of one sort or
another--that require extreme behavior to deal with, behavior such
as revenge, torture, lying, and even the vigilante violence
traditionally discouraged in mainstream entertainment. In this
bold, provocative, and witty investigation, Biskind shows how
extreme culture now calls the shots. It has become, in effect, the
new mainstream.
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