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The invisible hand in popular culture

Cantor, Paul A. 1945-

The invisible hand in popular culture liberty versus authority in American film and TV / [electronic resource] : Paul A. Cantor. - Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2012. - 1 online resource (488 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: popular culture and spontaneous order, or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the tube -- Freedom and order in the Western. The Western and Western drama: John Ford's 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. 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 -- 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. The truth is still out there: The X-files and 9/11 -- Un-American gothic: the alien invasion narrative and global modernity.

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Television programs--Political aspects--United States.
Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States.


Electronic books.

PN1995.9.P6 / C285 2012