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THE SKY IS FALLING
How Vampires, Zombies, Androids, and Superheroes Made America Great for Extremism
Peter Biskind
The New Press
252 pages; $26.99
It’s too soon for this book is the problem. Peter Biskind has previously explored pop culture and film history in fizzy, captivating works, including Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures. But those were written from hindsight — the eras he dissected had formed, plateaued and ebbed. Biskind illuminated facets of those eras that until his books came along had remained outside the light source of accepted opinion. He excelled at this task, peppering film analysis with gossip, empathy and
