The Sky is Falling! - The Unexpected Politics of Hollywood's Superheroes and Zombies

Informationen zum Autor Peter Biskind is a cultural critic and film historian. He was formerly editor-in-chief of American Film magazine and executive editor of Premiere magazine. His writing has appeared in scores of national publications, including The New York Times and Rolling Stone, as well as several film journals. He is currently a contributing editor at American Vanity Fair. He has published eight books, including the bestseller Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, and is Executive Director of the FilmColumbia Festival held in the Hudson Valley. Klappentext Peter Biskind is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair , a writer for Esquire , and the author of the classic bestsellers Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures . He lives in upstate New York. Zusammenfassung 'You'll never look at your favourite movies and TV shows the same way again. And you shouldn't' Steven Soderbergh 'Insanely readable' Slavoj Zizek 'Your book was ... like a bag of pot, with me saying, 'I'm not gonna smoke.' But I was insatiable' Quentin Tarantino on Easy Riders, Raging Bulls In The Sky is Falling! bestselling cultural critic Peter Biskind takes us on a dizzying ride across two decades of pop culture to show how the TV and movies we love - from Game of Thrones and 24 to Homeland and Iron Man - have taught us to love political extremism. Welcome to a darkly pessimistic, apocalyptic world where winter has come, the dead are walking, and ultra violence, revenge and torture are all in a day's work. Welcome to the new normal.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Biskind, Biskind Peter
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780241373873
• ISBN: 978-0-241-37387-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); USA, Media Studies, Television, Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism, HUMOR / Topic / Politics, Humour, Films, cinema, Film, TV & radio, United States of America, USA, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Political ideologies and movements