Prolific author M. Keith Booker investigates the hidden truths of some of America's most popular movies and tv shows - including Buffy, Heroes, and Harry Potter - and thus illuminates the changing nature of our most enduring national myths.
Introduction. Culture of Longing: The Supernatual in American Culture 1 Not Just a Job: The Longing for Adventure 2. Heroism in America: The Longing for Heroes 3. U.S. vs. Them: American Paranoia and the Longing for Evil in American History and American Culture Conclusion: The Contradictory Compensations of Popular Culture
M. Keith Booker is currently the James E. and Ellen Wadley Roper Professor in the Department of English at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of many Greenwood and Praeger volumes on television and film, including most recently May Contain Graphic Material: Graphic Novels, Comic Books, and Film (2007), Postmodern Hollywood: What's New in Film and Why It Makes Us Feel So Strange (2007), From Box Office to Ballot Box: The American Political Film (2007), Alternate Americas: Science Fiction Film and American Culture (2006), and Science Fiction Television (2004).
Booker succeeds in demonstrating how the mythology of the
supernatural relates to several important contemporary political
and social questions, such as prejudices against homosexuals, free
choice, exploitation of workers, environmental destruction, and the
development of nuclear energy or weapons.
*Southwest Journal of Cultures*
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