Shows about nothing
Subtitle: nihilism in popular culture
By: Thomas S. Hibbs
Edition: 2nd rev. and expanded ed.
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Waco, Tex
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781602583788
Subjects: Culture in motion pictures; Evil in motion pictures; Nihilism (Philosophy) on television; Nihilism (Philosophy) in motion pictures
Description: xvii, 257 p. ; 23 cm
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Nihilism, American style; title: The quest for evil; title: The negative zone : suburban familial malaise in American beauty, Revolutionary road, and Mad men; title: Normal nihilism as comic : Seinfeld, Trainspotting, and Pulp fiction; title: Romanticism and nihilism; title: Defense against the dark arts : from Se7en to the Dark knight and Harry Potter; title: God got involved : sacred quests and overcoming nihilism; title: Feels like the movies.