Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream: Con Men, Gangsters, Drug Lords, and Zombies. Paul A. Cantor. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2019. …
Game of Thrones Season 7, Episode 7 closes with a horrifying scene of White Walkers crossing into the North from the now crumbled wall that once stood…
At a surface level, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playbook appears to be a deeply progressive television show. It certainly ticks many of the liberal/progressive boxes. Zoey (Jane Levy) is…
The Politics of Twin Peaks. Amanda DiPaolo and Jamie Gillies, eds. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019. American filmmaker, David Lynch, is mostly known for his strange and…
New Television: The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre. Martin Shuster. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Martin Shuster’s New Television: The Aesthetics and Politics of…
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. 20th Anniversary. Neil Postman with a new introduction by Andrew Postman. New York: Penguin Books,…
The X-Files at its best celebrates that “the truth is out there”—objective, weird, and always slipping from our complete grasp. At its worst, the show makes heroes…