Age of Anxiety: Meaning, Identity, and Politics in 21st-Century Film and Literature

by Anthony M. Wachs, Jon D Schaff, Jon D. Schaff

Book Overview

Age of Anxiety: Meaning, Identity, and Politics in 21st Century Film and Literature analyzes literature and films that speak to our age of anxiety resulting from the decline of narratives that provided individuals with a meaningful human life. The authors argue that the twentieth-century sought to free individuals from the constraints of authoritative cultural traditions and institutions, liberating the autonomous self. Yet this has given rise...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149857520X
• ISBN13: 9781498575201
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"