A Time of Covidiocy: Media, Politics, and Social Upheaval

by Daniel Ian Rubin

Book Overview

The COVID-19 pandemic interrupted a chaotic political and social landscape within the United States. Its arrival revealed cracks in longstanding neoliberal narratives. In this book, the authors utilize critical theory to analyze the collapse of these hyper-individualistic narratives within the media, in the broad areas of economics, the nuclear family, and authoritarian populism and through the topics of scapegoating China, capitalist class economic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004500006
• ISBN13: 9789004500006
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 198 Pages