Cruel optimism

Lauren Gail Berlant

About this book

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

  • optimism
  • popular culture
  • popular culture, united states
  • progress
  • social conditions
  • united states, social conditions, 1980-