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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Critical Theory
- liberalism
- Lionel Trilling
- fear
- culture industry
- popular culture
- ideology
- equality
- democracy
- race
- racism
- whiteness
- President Barack Obama
- environmentalism
- animals rights
- imagination
- education
- movies: 12 Years a Slave
- The Dark Knight
- The Dark Knight Rises
- critical theory
- culture
- politics
- television
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Reviews
"Here comes the boom! That's what happens when Bruce Baum brings political theory to popular culture. He deftly analyzes the un-utterable subtext of today's cinema, TV and more, to highlight how they participate in the death of the social, the erasure of structural causes of our current inequitable society and misguided valorization of individual ability and effort as the prime forces why class, race and gender disparities exist. Going to the movies has never been so politically edifying! The Post-Liberal Imagination: Political Scenes from the American Cultural Landscape is an important work of political scholarship." - Sanford Schram, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Hunter College, CUNY, USA
About the author
Bruce Baum is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is from Stamford, Connecticut, USA. He is the author of Rereading Power and Freedom in J.S. Mill (2000) and The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race: A Political History of Racial Identity (2006).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Post-Liberal Imagination
Book Subtitle: Political Scenes from the American Cultural Landscape
Authors: Bruce Baum
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137560346
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56032-2Published: 04 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56034-6Published: 26 January 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 257
Topics: European Politics, Media Studies, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Political History, Political Science