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Cruel optimism

by Lauren Gail Berlant

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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.

Social conditionsProgressPopular cultureOptimismPopular culture, united statesUnited states, social conditions, 1980-