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´You´ll never look at your favourite movies and TV shows the same way again. And you shouldn´t´ Steven Soderbergh
´Insanely readable´ Slavoj Zizek
´Your book was ... like a bag of pot, with me saying, ´I´m not gonna smoke.´ But I was insatiable´ Quentin Tarantino on Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

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 - from Game of Thrones and 24 to Homeland and Iron Man - 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.

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A Sunday Times Book of the Year -

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Biskind, Peter
Peter Biskind is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, a writer for Esquire, and the author of the classic bestsellers Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures. He lives in upstate New York.

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