The post-liberal imagination : political scenes from the American cultural landscape /

• Main Author: Baum, Bruce David, 1960- (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Liberalism > United States.; Popular culture > Political aspects > United States.; Political culture > United States.; United States > Politics and government > 2001-2009.; United States > Politics and government > 2009-; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

"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 con...

Table of Contents:

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• PART I: INTRODUCTION
• 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
• PART II: ANIMALS: PROJECT NIM AND RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
• 5. Hollywood's Crisis of Capitalism: 'Inside Job' and 'The Company Men'
• 6. Occupy Wall Street, Steve Jobs's 'Genius,' and Mad Men: Reflections on the Democratic
• PART III: IMAGINATION
• 7. Hollywood on Race in the Age of Obama
• 8. President Obama and the White Problem
• Conclusion.