Reclaiming the social: Pedagogy, resistance, and politics in celluloid culture

We live in an age in which the new conservativism that has reigned in the United States for the last decade has consistently struggled to depoliticize politics while simultaneously attempting to politicize popular culture and the institutions that make up daily life. The depoliticizing of politics is evident, in part, in the ways in which the new conservative formations use the electronic technologies of image, sound, and text not only to alter …