Saul Goodman - The American Candide?: Essays on Politics, Philosophy and Film - Paperback

by Josette Baer (Author), Wolfgang Rother (Foreword by)

This book offers a fascinating insight into how film as a medium can portray political thought. Josette Baer's collection of seven essays is the first publication of this kind; her analysis covers films such as The Best of Enemies and The Lost Daughter, and the TV series Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul in an interdisciplinary approach to politics, philosophy, and film.

Author Biography

Josette Baer is senior lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences at UCM Trnava, Slovakia, and adjunct professor of political theory with a focus on Central and Eastern European political thought at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland. She has published several books and peer-reviewed studies about Czechoslovak, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Russian, and Macedonian political thought and politics.