# The Sky is Falling!

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- Authors: [Peter Biskind](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-biskind)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4137-387-3
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2019-09-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Are Batman and 24 's Jack Bauer heroic loners defending our way of life - or right-wing vigilantes attacking it? Is Avatar just a National Geographic version of Star Wars or a passionate assault on capitalism? And what about Game of Thrones - sword and sorcery fantasy, or lesson in mainstream politics? In The Sky is Falling! bestselling cultural critic Peter Biskind takes us on a dizzying ride across two decades of pop culture to show how the TV and movies we love have taught us to love political extremism. Welcome to a darkly pessimistic, apocalyptic world where winter has come, the dead are walking, and ultra violence, revenge and torture are all in a day's work. Welcome to the new normal.