The invisible hand in popular culture : liberty versus authority in American film and TV /
Cantor, Paul A.(Paul Arthur),1945-
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-433) and index.
Introduction: popular culture and spontaneous order, or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the tube -- 1. Freedom and order in the Western -- The Western and Western drama: John Ford's The searchers and The Oresteia -- The original frontier: Gene Roddenberry's apprenticeship for Star Trek in Have gun, will travel -- Order out of the mud: Deadwood and the state of nature -- 2. Maverick creators and Maverick heroes -- Mars attacks!: Tim Burton and the ideology of The flying saucer movie -- Flying solo: The aviator and entrepreneurial vision -- Cartman shrugged: the invisible gnomes and the invisible hand in South Park -- 3. Edgar G. Ulmer: the aesthete from the Alps meets the King of the B's -- The fall of the House of Ulmer: Europe versus America in the Gothic vision of The black cat -- America as wasteland in Detour: film noir and The Frankfurt school -- 4. 9/11, globalization, and new challenges to freedom -- The truth is still out there: The X-files and 9/11 -- Un-American Gothic: the alien invasion narrative and global modernity.
Motion pictures
Television programs