Winning the Crowd

Jonathan Ashbach

doi:10.5771/9781666955286

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Copyright year: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-5527-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-5528-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 232
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
1. Interpreting Film No access
2. Arguing About Film No access
3. Notes No access
4. Bibliography No access
1. From Pleasantville to Pleasureville No access
2. Sex, Youth, and Revolution No access
3. Art, Language, and the “New Sensibility” No access
4. Pleasantville in Counterrevolution No access
5. Whitewashing the Revolution No access
6. Notes No access
7. Bibliography No access
1. The Focus of Scholarship No access
2. Introduction to Aristotle on Courage No access
3. Percy Wetmore’s Character Reveal No access
4. Bad Man v. Innocent Mouse No access
5. Sowing the Seeds of Revenge No access
6. The Sabotaged Execution No access
7. Percy Finally Transfers to Briar Ridge No access
8. Conclusion No access
9. Notes No access
10. Bibliography No access
1. What We Do in Life Echoes in Eternity No access
2. “Win the Crowd” No access
3. “What Is Rome?” No access
4. “Is Rome Worth One Good Man’s Life?” No access
5. Notes No access
6. Bibliography No access
1. The Context: A Global Clash of Superpowers and Principles No access
2. Equality and Rightly Ordered Rule No access
3. The Character of a Polis: Rightly Ordered Love No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
6. Bibliography No access
1. A Different Kind of Superhero Story No access
2. Tocqueville and the Challenges of Democratic Life No access
3. The Virtues of the Family and the Temptation of Individualism No access
4. Technology and Soft Despotism No access
5. Constructive Outlets for Human Excellence No access
6. Notes No access
7. Bibliography No access
1. Preliminaries: Racist Propaganda? No access
2. The Melting Pot No access
3. Crime No access
4. Masculinity No access
5. Family Life No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
8. Bibliography No access
1. Batman Begins: Fear as Power No access
2. Batman Begins: Three Theories of Justice No access
3. The Dark Knight: Authority and Necessity No access
4. The Dark Knight Rises: The Death of the City No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
7. Bibliography No access
1. The Hotel No access
2. The ZZs and the Loss of Civil Society No access
3. Remembering Agatha No access
4. Notes No access
5. Bibliography No access
1. Love of Country and Its Traditions No access
2. Localism No access
3. Political Liberty No access
4. Sovereignty and Globalization No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
7. Bibliography No access
1. Focus No access
2. Commitment No access
3. Will No access
4. A Seat at the Table No access
5. Notes No access
6. Bibliography No access
Index No access Pages 221 - 228
About the Editor and Contributors No access Pages 229 - 232