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The Sky Is Falling by Peter Biskind
Cultural criticism

The Sky Is Falling

by Peter Biskind

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An entertaining and insightful look at the ways film and television can shape political thought.

Why it’s worth it

Maris Kreizman
Author, Slaughterhouse 90210

There’s nothing better than unplugging from the news and getting lost in entertainment that has nothing to do with politics. Or so I thought, until I read Peter Biskind’s latest book of cultural criticism. It turns out that everything we might think of as mind candy—from superhero movies to horror flicks, from Game of Thrones to The Walking Dead—may mirror our ideologies more than we think.

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Overview

Almost everything has been invoked to account for Trump’s victory and the rise of the alt-right, from job loss to racism to demography—everything, that is, except popular culture. In The Sky Is Falling, best-selling cultural journalist Peter Biskind dives headlong into two decades of popular culture—from superhero franchises such as the Dark Knight, X-Men, and the Avengers and series like The Walk...

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