The Post-Liberal Imagination
Subtitle: Political Scenes from the American Cultural Landscape
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Nov 04, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9781137560322
Description: "In The Post-Liberal Imagination, Bruce Baum approaches American liberalism 'in a critical spirit' by examining the relationship between popular culture and politics in the Bush-Obama era. The book explores how contemporary popular culture arguably plays a larger formative role in contemporary US politics. Through analyzing movies, television, and popular music, the author discusses how these cultural productions illuminate notable political scenes of the American cultural landscape. In so doing, he provokes us to rethink the liberal notions - or liberal imaginings - of democracy, equality, racism, dissent, and animal rights"--

"In The Post-Liberal Imagination, Bruce Baum approaches American liberalism "in a critical spirit" by examining the relationship between popular culture and politics. The book analyzes movies, television, and popular music to rethink the liberal views of democracy, equality, racism, dissent, and animal rights in the Bush-Obama era"--
Notes: Source title: The Post-Liberal Imagination: Political Scenes from the American Cultural Landscape