Paul Cantor talks with the Mises Institute about his new book The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture: Liberty vs. Authority in Film and TV , newly available from The University Press of Kentucky. Mises Institute : In Invisible Hand , you spend a bit of time explaining how film and TV are a collaborative process and not the product of any one
All my life I have been watching the U.S. federal government steadily increase its power, but I never expected to see it expand into the comic book business. Imagine my surprise, then, when I found a comic book — excuse me, a “graphic novella” — on the official web site of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a minor masterpiece of the
See Part One: Zombie Apocalypse in a ‘DC’ Comic Note: This article contains spoilers. AMC’s hit series The Walking Dead portrays a grim and bleak world, in which the rapid spread of a zombie plague has brought humanity to its knees. With flesh-eating ghouls roaming all over the landscape, the remaining people are not sure how to protect themselves
This is the final part of a series. Read Part I and Part II . In comparing the comic book Zombie Pandemic with the TV series The Walking Dead , we have seen contrasting images of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In its own comic, the C.D.C. portrays itself as able to come up with a vaccine against a zombie plague within a few days,
In Breaking Bad , Vince Gilligan created one of the best shows in television history. He has followed it with a prequel, Better Call Saul! , which traces how the ethically-challenged lawyer featured in the earlier show — Saul Goodman — developed out of a perennial loser named Jimmy McGill. Breaking Bad fans are overjoyed that Gilligan has struck
With Beavis and Butt-head and King of the Hill , Mike Judge earned his place in pop culture history. His new HBO comedy Silicon Valley seems an unlikely follow-up to his earlier successes. The man who made a film called Idiocracy has been specializing in portraying really dumb people, or, at least in the case of propane salesman Hank Hill, really
JEFF DEIST: The last time the Mises Institute interviewed you was way back in 2001, for what was then called the Austrian Economics Newsletter . That interview discusses how you met Ludwig von Mises and read Human Action at a very young age. PAUL CANTOR: Yes. My brother was studying with Sylvester Petro at NYU Law School and Petro was a friend of
[Editor’s Note: This year, University of Virginia Professor of English Paul Cantor released his third book in a series of books on television and film. With Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream: Con Men, Gangsters, Drug Lords, and Zombies , Cantor continues the work begun with 2001’s Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture in the Age of
[Capítulo 4 de Literature & the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture, editado por Paul A. Cantor y Stephen Cox.] La verdadera diferencia entre Byron y Shelley es esta; aquellos que los comprenden y aman se regocijan de que Byron haya muerto a los treinta y seis años, porque si hubiera vivido se habría convertido en un burgués
Nada saldrá de la nada. Shakespeare, Rey Lear Si, como se nos dice a menudo, el objetivo del arte es escandalizar a la burguesía, la escena del arte contemporáneo se ha vuelto positivamente eléctrica últimamente. En el más reciente escándalo estético, un artista sardo llamado Salvatore Garau consiguió vender una escultura invisible, conocida
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