Author:
Cantor, Paul A. (Paul Arthur), 1945-2022.
Imprint:Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c 2012.
Descriptionxxvi, 461 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction: popular culture and spontaneous order, or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the tube -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-433) and index.
