03603nam 22006375 450 991048432220332120250610110345.09783030426781303042678510.1007/978-3-030-42678-1(CKB)4100000011354660(MiAaPQ)EBC6273797(DE-He213)978-3-030-42678-1(Perlego)3481690(MiAaPQ)EBC6270804(MiAaPQ)EBC29090584(EXLCZ)99410000001135466020200725d2020 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAmerican Cinema and Cultural Diplomacy The Fragmented Kaleidoscope /by Thomas J. Cobb1st ed. 2020.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2020.1 online resource (270 pages)Includes index.9783030426774 3030426777 Introduction -- Chapter 1: Rehabilitations of idealism - action, satire and the late 1990s -- Chapter 2: Unanticipated synergy - lost innocence in early 2000s war cinema -- Chapter 3: 'The thaw' - the 2004 election and questions of cultural diplomacy -- Chapter 4: Imperial overstretch and the nihilistic frontier - Western political allegory in the late 2000s -- Chapter 5: Apex of allegory - Blockbuster responses to the end of the Bush era -- Chapter 6 (concluding chapter): Forever fragmented - Obama to Trump and the new identitarianism of IR dichotomies.This book contends that Hollywood films help illuminate the incongruities of various periods in American diplomacy. From the war film Bataan to the Revisionist Western The Wild Bunch, cinema has long reflected US foreign policy's divisiveness both directly and allegorically. Beginning with the 1990s presidential drama The American President and concluding with Joker's allegorical treatment of the Trump era, this book posits that the paradigms for political reflection are shifting in American film, from explicit subtexts surrounding US statecraft to covert representations of diplomatic disarray. It further argues that the International Relations theorist Walter Mead's concept of a US polity dominated by contesting beliefs, or a 'kaleidoscope', permeates these changing paradigms. This synergy reveals a cultural milieu where foreign policy fissures are increasingly encoded by cinematic representation. The interdisciplinarity of this focus renders this book pertinent reading for scholars and students of American Studies, Film Studies and International Relations, along with those generally interested in Hollywood filmmakers and foreign policy.Motion pictures, AmericanEthnologyAmericaCultureAmericaPolitics and governmentAmerican Film and TVAmerican CultureAmerican PoliticsMotion pictures, American.EthnologyCulture.AmericaPolitics and government.American Film and TV.American Culture.American Politics.791.43658301Cobb Thomas Jauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut879312MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910484322203321American Cinema and Cultural Diplomacy1963551UNINA