I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined) Tapa dura - 2013

Chuck Klosterman has walked into the darkness. As a boy, he related to the cultural figures who represented goodnessâÈ'but as an adult, he found himself unconsciously aligning with their enemies. This was not because he necessarily liked what they were doing; it was because they were doing it on purpose (and they were doing it better). They wanted to be evil. And what, exactly, was that supposed to mean? When we classify someone as a bad person, what are we really saying (and why are we so obsessed with saying it)? How does the culture of deliberate malevolence operate?

In I Wear the Black Hat, Klosterman questions the modern understanding of villainy. What was so Machiavellian about Machiavelli? Why donâÈçt we see Bernhard Goetz the same way we see Batman? Who is more worthy of our vitriolâÈ'Bill Clinton or Don Henley? What was O. J. SimpsonâÈçs second-worst decision? And why is Klosterman still haunted by some kid he knew for one week in 1985?

Masterfully blending cultural analysis with self-interrogation and imaginative hypotheticals, I Wear the Black Hat delivers perceptive observations on the complexity of the antihero (seemingly the only kind of hero America still creates). I Wear the Black Hat is a rare example of serious criticism thatâÈçs instantly accessible and really, really funny. Klosterman continues to be the only writer doing whatever it is heâÈçs doing.

Detalles

• Título I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)
• Autor Chuck Klosterman
• Encuadernación Tapa dura
• Edición First Edition
• Páginas 214
• Volúmenes 1
• Idioma ENG
• Editorial Scribner Book Company, New York
• Fecha de publicación 2013-07-09
• ISBN 9781439184493 / 1439184496
• Peso 0.7 libras (0.32 kg)
• Dimensiones 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9 pulgadas (21.34 x 13.97 x 2.29 cm)
• Library of Congress subjects Villains in popular culture, Villains in mass media
• Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2013003049
• Dewey Decimal Code 306.4

âÈêKlosterman offers up great facts, interesting cultural insights, and thought-provoking moral calculations in this look at our love affair with the anti-hero.âÈë