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Lauren Gail Berlant
Cruel optimism

Social conditionsPopular culture

Cruel optimism

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First published: 2011

Synopsis

Lauren Berlant explores individual and collective affective responses to the unraveling of the U.S. and European economies by analzying mass media, literature, television, film, and video.

Subjects: Social conditions
Popular culture
Popular culture, united states
United states, social conditions, 1980-
Optimism
Progress
Set in: United States
Time: 1980-

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Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011
Pages: 342
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0822350972

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