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Age of Anxiety: Meaning, Identity, and Politics in 21st Century Film and Literature applies historical and contemporary political and rhetorical theory to current popular culture to discuss the problem of the displaced autonomous self and the quest for a meaningful life.

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This book revisits representations of AIDS in the 1980s in the U.S. in order to highlight a discourse of trauma and witness that emerged in the wake of a crisis. The book also emphasizes the potential of literary language to call attention to historical trauma where other discourses may fail.

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Aldous Huxley: The Political Thought of a Man of Letters examines Huxleys political thinking through an analysis of Brave New World, his most successful political manifesto. This book highlights his contributions to contemporary political theory.

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Aldous Huxley: The Political Thought of a Man of Letters examines Huxleys political thinking through an analysis of Brave New World, his most successful political manifesto. This book highlights his contributions to contemporary political theory.

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This book offers the first sustained argument against the philosophy of Walter Benjamin and his readings of Charles Baudelaire. Drawing upon the existential insights of Baudelaire it is also a critique of politicized aesthetics, and cultural Marxism, of which Benjamin is a pioneering and emblematic figure.

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This book uses literature to explain why pre-Confederation Canadians did not want to become Americans. The author argues that the perceived cultural distinctions between 19th-century American and colonial Canadian societies echoed public attitudes towards the political systems of the US and the British Empire, and the ideologies that shaped them.

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This history of the early American film industry identifies key political aspects in the rise of the classical Hollywood system. It uniquely identifies and explores the political development of American film that shows how movies shaped political culture and consumer capitalism in the twentieth century.

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This book demonstrates how government bureaucracy is portrayed in the top ten box office grossing films from 20002015. Perhaps unsurprisingly, government is generally portrayed poorly, but individual government bureaucrats are typically depicted positively.

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This book demonstrates how government bureaucracy is portrayed in the top ten box office grossing films from 20002015. Perhaps unsurprisingly, government is generally portrayed poorly, but individual government bureaucrats are typically depicted positively.

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Cowboy Politics uses key works of literature, film, and television to explore how westerns address political challenges of Western civilization. This book tracks how westerns supplement liberal politics with republican, populist, perfectionist, and environmentalist politics.

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Defenses Against the Dark Arts argues that performances of magic in Harry Potter show us how to leap into political action, from high politics of governments and elections to everyday politics of private lives and popular cultures. It features learning to face and defend against dark arts in dark times.

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Defenses Against the Dark Arts argues that performances of magic in Harry Potter show us how to leap into political action, from high politics of governments and elections to everyday politics of private lives and popular cultures. It features learning to face and defend against dark arts in dark times.

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Flannery OConnors fiction continues to haunt American readers, in part because of its uncanny ability to remind us who we are and what we need. This book reveals the extent to which OConnor was a serious reader of the history of political philosophy and why OConnor feared that the habit to govern by tenderness would lead to terror.

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Flannery OConnors fiction continues to haunt American readers, in part because of its uncanny ability to remind us who we are and what we need. This book reveals the extent to which OConnor was a serious reader of the history of political philosophy and why OConnor feared that the habit to govern by tenderness would lead to terror.

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To understand the movements of democratic society one must appreciate fictional narratives and not depend on rationalistic argumentation and scientific analyses. This book examines the effects of storytelling in democratic culture and political life, as it articulates our aspirations, communicates our fears, and criticizes our reality.

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How does Game of Thrones mirror international politics and how may the series provide a useful tool for better understanding the theories of international relations This book connects international relations theories to the series, providing examples from characters whose actions reflect applied scenarios of decision-making and strategy.

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This book examines conceptions of human nature and how such ideas impact the political arrangements in the works ofThomas More, Edward Bellamy, Aldous Huxley, and George Orwell. By teasing out the underlying conceptions of human nature in these novels, this book links the ontology of their works directly to their political prescriptions.

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This book explores and evaluates Henry David Thoreaus political thought through the lens of a theory of imagination and considers his legacy for later environmental thought. This book will interest anyone curious about Thoreaus relationship to environmentalism and the intersection of environmental humanities and politics.

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This book analyzes Borgess works through a political rather than a literary or cultural lens. It explores how Borgess politically inspired works make the case for individual liberty against political oppression, militarism, and populism and examines the evolution of Borgess democratic sensitivity by relating it to salient historical events.

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This book analyzes Borgess works through a political rather than a literary or cultural lens. It explores how Borgess politically inspired works make the case for individual liberty against political oppression, militarism, and populism and examines the evolution of Borgess democratic sensitivity by relating it to salient historical events.

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Lights, Camera, Execution! engages in detailed critical analysis of nine different films about capital punishment in the United States. It examines well-known movies from the last thirty years; explores the cinematic techniques used; and identifies common themes such as race and human dignity.

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This collection of essays explores the philosophical and political dimensions of America as revealed by AMCs Mad Men, investigating topics including freedom, equality, consumerism and justice.

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Milton's Socratic Rationalism focuses on the influence of Milton's years of private study of classical authors, chiefly Plato, Xenophon and Aristotle, on Paradise Lost. It examines the conversations of Adam and Eve as a mode of discourse closely aligned to practices of Socrates in the dialogues of Plato and eponymous discourses of Xenophon.

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Milton's Socratic Rationalism focuses on the influence of Milton's years of private study of classical authors, chiefly Plato, Xenophon and Aristotle, on Paradise Lost. It examines the conversations of Adam and Eve as a mode of discourse closely aligned to practices of Socrates in the dialogues of Plato and eponymous discourses of Xenophon.