![]() Where once centrist institutions and their agents-cops and docs, soldiers and scientists, as well as educators, politicians, and “experts” of every stripe-were glorified by mainstream Hollywood, the heroes of today’s movies and TV, whether far right or far left, have overthrown this quaint ideological consensus. In The Sky Is Falling bestselling 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 Walking Dead and Game of Thrones to thrillers like Homeland and 24-and emerges to argue that these shows are saturated with the values that are currently animating our extreme politics. ![]() 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. ![]()
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