Overview
This book analyzes the varied ways in which American films and television shows grapple with the problem of freedom. Popular culture often champions freedom as the fundamentally American way of life, and celebrates the independence and self-reliance of ordinary Americans. But film and television have also explored the tension between freedom and other American values, such as order and political stability. What looks from one angle like a healthy, productive, and creative freedom, may look from
- | Author: Stephanie McSpirit
- | Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
- | Publication Date: Jul 01, 2012
- | Number of Pages: 284 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0813136199
- | ISBN-13: 9780813136196