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Invisible Hand in Popular Culture Liberty vs. Authority in American Film and TV

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ISBN-10: 081314082X

ISBN-13: 9780813140827

Edition: 2017

Authors: Paul A. Cantor

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2017
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Publication date: 11/30/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 488
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.760

Paul A. Cantor has authored dozens of articles in various publications and is a regular contributor to The Weekly Standard and The American Enterprise, Cantor lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he is professor of English at the University of Virginia.

Preface
Introduction: Popular Culture and Spontaneous Order, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tube
Freedom and Order in the Western
Introduction to Part One
The Western and Western Drama: John Fords The Searchers and the Oresteia
The Original Frontier: Gene Roddenberry s Apprenticeship for Star Trek in Have Gun-Will Travel
Order Out of the Mud: Deadwood and the State of Nature
Maverick Creators and Maverick Heroes
Introduction to Part Two
Mars Attacks!: Tim Burton and the Ideology of the Flying Saucer Movie
Flying Solo: The Aviator and Entrepreneurial Vision
Cartman Shrugged: The Invisible Gnomes and the Invisible Hand in South Park
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Aesthete from the Alps Meets the King of the B's
Introduction to Part Three
The Fall of the House of Ulmer: Europe versus America in the Gothic Vision of The Black Cat
America as Wasteland in Detour: Film Noir and the Frankfurt School
9/11, Globalization, and New Challenges to Freedom
Introduction to Part Four
The Truth Is Still Out There: The X-Files and 9/11
Un-American Gothic: The Alien Invasion Narrative and Global Modernity
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index