American Popular Culture in the Era of Terror: Falling Skies, Dark Knights Rising, and Collapsing Cultures

by Jesse Kavadlo

Bringing together the most popular genres of the 21st century, this book argues that Americans have entered a new era of narrative dominated by the fear--and wish fulfillment--of the breakdown of authority and terror itself.

Bringing together disparate and popular genres of the 21st century, American Popular Culture in the Era of Terror: Falling Skies, Dark Knights Rising, and Collapsing Cultures argues that popular culture...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1440835624
• ISBN13: 9781440835629
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 7 to 17 years