American Popular Culture in the Era of Terror

Falling Skies, Dark Knights Rising, and Collapsing Cultures

2015 INDIES Finalist
Finalist, Popular Culture (Adult Nonfiction)
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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.