LEADER 04866nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910809025803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 0 $a1444314815 010 0 $a9781444314816 010 $a9781444314809 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7104593 035 $a(CKB)24989757100041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC477883 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL477883 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10358886 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL247211 035 $a(OCoLC)605022314 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924989757100041 100 $a20090828d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCinema wars $eHollywood film and politics in the Bush-Cheney era /$fDouglas Kellner 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMalden, MA $cWiley-Blackwell$d2010 215 $ax, 279 p 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Cinema Wars -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Plates -- Introduction: Film, Politics, and Society -- Hollywood Film as a Contested Terrain -- Cinema, Politics, and Social History: From Cinematic Realism to Allegory -- Hollywood Film and the Contemporary Moment: Signs of the Times -- Reading Film Diagnostically: Imagining Obama -- In This Book -- 1 Confronting the Horrors of the Bush-Cheney Era: From Documentary to Allegory -- The Golden Age of Documentary -- Real Disaster Films: From An Inconvenient Truth and Environmental Documentaries to Animated Allegories -- Allegories of Catastrophe: Social Apocalypse in Disaster, Horror, and Fantasy Films -- 2 Hollywood's 9/11 and Spectacles of Terror -- 9/11 as Disaster Film and Spectacle of Terror -- Representations of 9/11 in Hollywood Film: United 93 and World Trade Center -- Disney Television Republican Propaganda: The Path to 9/11 -- Hollywood's Terror War -- 3 Michael Moore's Provocations -- Michael Moore, Emile de Antonio, and the Politics of Documentary Film -- Roger and Me and the Documentary of Personal Witnessing -- Bowling For Columbine and Exploratory Documentary Montage -- Fahrenheit 9/11 and Partisan Interventionist Cinema -- Sicko and the Michael Moore Genre -- 4 Hollywood Political Critiques of the Bush-Cheney Regime: From Thrillers to Fantasy and Satire -- The Hollywood Political Thriller Against the Bush-Cheney Regime -- Star Wars Prequels as Anti-Bush-Cheney Allegory -- From Satire to Dystopia -- 5 The Cinematic Iraq War -- Documenting Iraq -- Interpreting the Iraq Fiasco -- Iraq and Its Aftermath in Fiction Films -- Conclusion: Hollywood Cinema Wars in the 2000s -- Critical Representations -- History Lessons -- Final Reflections -- References -- Index. 330 $aCinema Wars explores the intersection of film, politics, and US culture and society through a bold critical analysis of the films, TV shows, and documentaries produced in the early 2000s Offers a thought-provoking depiction of Hollywood film as a contested terrain between conservative and liberal forcesFilms and documentaries discussed include: Black Hawk Down, TheDark Knight, Star Wars, Syriana,WALL-E, Fahrenheit 9/11 and other Michael Moore documentaries, amongst othersExplores how some films in this era supported the Bush-Cheney regime, while others criticized the administration, openly or otherwiseInvestigates Hollywood's treatment of a range of hot topics, from terrorism and environmental crisis to the Iraq war and the culture wars of the 2000sShows how Hollywood film in the 2000s brought to life a vibrant array of social protest and helped create cultural conditions to elect Barack Obama. 606 $aMotion pictures$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States 606 $aMotion pictures$zUnited States$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aDocumentary films$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDocumentary films$xPolitical aspects$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnvironmental films$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitics in motion pictures 606 $aTerrorism in motion pictures 606 $aIraq War, 2003-2011$xMotion pictures and the war 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y2001-2009 615 0$aMotion pictures$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aMotion pictures$xHistory 615 0$aDocumentary films$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDocumentary films$xPolitical aspects$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnvironmental films$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitics in motion pictures. 615 0$aTerrorism in motion pictures. 615 0$aIraq War, 2003-2011$xMotion pictures and the war. 676 $a791.43658 700 $aKellner$b Douglas$f1943-$0549848 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910809025803321 996 $aCinema wars$94107049 997 $aUNINA