ISBN:
9780822351115
,
9780822350972
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 342 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
A John Hope Franklin Center book
DDC:
302.23/4097309045
Keywords:
Popular culture
;
Optimism
;
Progress
;
USA
;
Gesellschaft
;
Fortschrittsglaube
;
Krise
;
Optimismus
;
United States Social conditions 1980-
;
USA
;
Massenkultur
;
Optimismus
;
Gefühl
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction. affect in the present -- Cruel optimism -- Intuitionists: history and the affective event -- Slow death (obesity, sovereignty, lateral agency) -- Two girls, fat and thin -- Nearly utopian, nearly normal: post-Fordist affect in La Promesse and Rosetta -- After the good life, an impasse: time out, human resources, and the precarious present -- On the desire for the political.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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