Here's Looking at You: Hollywood, Film & Politics examines the tangled relationship between politics and Hollywood, which manifests itself in celebrity involvement in political campaigns and elections, and in the overt and covert political messages conveyed by Hollywood films. The book's findings contradict the film industry's assertion that it is ...
It is estimated that more than half of the world's population has seen at least one James Bond film. This study explores how the heavily skewed political landscape presented in the extremely popular series of Bond films has influenced the worldwide movie-going public.
Radical Hollywood is the first comprehensive history of the Hollywood Left. From the dawn of sound movies to the early 1950s, Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner trace the political and personal lives of the screen-writers, actors, directors, and producers on the Left and the often decisive impact of their work upon American film's Golden Age. Full of rich ...
"Visions of Empire" explores film's function as a medium of political communication, recognizing not just the propaganda film, but the various ways that conventional narrative films embody, question, or critique established social values underlying American attitudes toward historical, social, and political events. Stephen Prince discusses ...
How does the mass entertainment medium of film deal with dramatic real-life political and economic conflict, such as the Great Depression and the Cold War, in a way which attracts an audience without making it angry? This text examines the issue, looking at American films of various genres.
Given the complexity and expense of making and distributing a film, the process of filmmaking is by its very nature also a political process. Moreover, given the power and persuasiveness of the cinema as a medium, film can be a powerful political tool. It should thus come as no surprise that film has had a long and extensive engagement with a ...
In this fresh look at moviemaking during the Great Depression, David Welky examines Hollywood's response to the rise of fascism and the beginning of the Second World War. Through innovative analysis of hundreds of movies - including "The Dawn Patrol", "Goodbye", "Mr. Chips", and "Sergeant York" - Welky traces the shifting motivations and arguments ...
Outfitted in a well-researched, academic garb, this investigation of the Hollywood people named in the congressional hearings during the late 1940s and early 1950s as "subversive," digs up extensive biographical information about several blacklisted screenwriters whose tarnished careers have received little previous attention, such as Michael ...
The Cold War was unique in the way films, books, television shows, colleges and universities, and practices of everyday life were enlisted to create American political consensus. This coercion fostered a seemingly hegemonic, nationally unified perspective devoted to spreading a capitalist, socially conservative notion of freedom throughout the ...
Film and visual images are major components of modern society that can add to our understanding and appreciation of the political process in contemporary America. From silent films to twenty-first century blockbusters, from Bugs Bunny to The Simpsons and Star Trek, movies and television provide windows into political history and inform our ...
The 'political' film in Hollywood is a boom industry. This is the first book to investigate Hollywood's treatment of American politics, politicians and political institutions. The author explores the influence - through creative, ideological and financial means - that Hollywood has on politics, and vice-versa. Key questions of agenda setting are ...
This reference guide provides detailed discussions of over fifty movies about American politics and politicians. In an introduction, the author describes how the political genre has evolved over the past seventy years. Then, in his discussions of individual films, arranged in alphabetical order, Keyishian shows how the patterns in the genre have ...
Offers a rhetorical criticism of movies about national politics, with a primary focus on the value judgments, political consciousness and political implications surrounding the films "Mr Smith Goes to Washington" (1939), "The Candidate" (1972), "The Contender" (2000), "Wag the Dog" (1997), "Power" (1986), and "Primary Colors" (1998).
Reprints the insightful contributions of more than fifty screenwriters, directors, producers, historians, and critics on diverse films from the earliest years of the film industry through the 1970s...a celebration of artistic and intellectual aspiration. - LIBRARY JOURNAL
There were 435 American silent motion pictures released between 1909 and 1929 (both shorts and four-reel or longer features from 1909 to 1917) that engaged the issues of militant labour and revolutionary radicalism. The first part of this study contains an introduction and three chapters that examine how the American motion picture industry ...
This book has two aims: to offer a series of investigations into aspects of contemporary politics such as race, nation and gender; and to articulate a critical philosophical perspective with politically disposed treatments of contemporary cinema. What the author offers is a politics of critique, inspired by Kant, in which he attempts to show what ...
Global Auteurs employs auteur theory to examine the work of three contemporary and innovative directors: Pedro Almodovar, Lars von Trier, and Michael Winterbottom. With extensive background information on the global film industry, and on auteur theory and its implications for ideological critique, this book's insightful case studies examine both ...
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