Peter Biskind

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September 25, 2018, 7:30pm. Buy tickets here. At Temple Emanuel, 8844 Burton Way Beverly Hills, CA 90211. Parking available on local streets and in the garage under the building. Ticket: $20 (General Admission) Really Special Deal! $38: 1 General Admission ticket with one copy of Peter Biskind’s The Sky is Falling: How Vampires, Zombies, Androids, and Superheroes Made America Great for Extremism. What does pop culture have to do with the lack of common ground in Washington? What relationship does the blockbuster have with growing political extremism in our country and abroad? What do superhero action fantasies bearing little or no resemblance to reality have in common with the new ideological landscape of our country and others around the world? Peter Biskind, observer of all things related to film, argues that for the past several decades, both the left and the right have vaulted their themes into our culture, via movies and television shows featuring superheroes, super cops, super spies, and super robots to create us-against-them extremes. The X-Men and Dark Knight franchises, to name only two, not only resonate with, but have helped to create, the political conversation in America today. The mainstream, Biskind argues,of cops and robbers, doctors and patients, has been supplanted by fiery comic-book violence, or subtle ideological rhetoric and has put science, reason, goodness on the defensive.

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• The Sky is Falling: How Vampires, Zombies, Androids, and Superheroes Made America Great for ExtremismPeter Biskind

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Writers Bloc Presents

8383 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90211

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