How Popular Culture Destroys Our Political Imagination: Capitalism and Its Alternatives in Film and Television

How Popular Culture Destroys our Political Imagination: Capitalism and its Alternatives in Film and Television explores the representations of capitalism, the state, and their alternatives in popular screen media texts.

Eugene Nulman is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore. He has written on the subject of popular culture and society and social movements, with a focus on climate activism. He has written the books Coronavirus Capitalism Goes to the Cinema (2021) and Climate Change and Social Movements: Civil Society and the Development of National Climate Change Policy (2015). He has published academic work in journals such as Third World Quarterly; Media, Culture and Society; Journal of Youth Studies; and Environmental Politics.