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Autore: |
Kellner Douglas <1943->
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Titolo: |
Cinema wars : Hollywood film and politics in the Bush-Cheney era / / Douglas Kellner
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Pubblicazione: | Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | x, 279 p |
Disciplina: | 791.43658 |
Soggetto topico: | Motion pictures - Political aspects - United States |
Motion pictures - United States - History - 21st century | |
Documentary films - United States - History and criticism | |
Documentary films - Political aspects - History and criticism | |
Environmental films - United States - History and criticism | |
Politics in motion pictures | |
Terrorism in motion pictures | |
Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Motion pictures and the war | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Politics and government 2001-2009 |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Cinema 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Cinema wars ![]() |
ISBN: | 1444314815 |
9781444314816 | |
9781444314809 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910809025803321 |
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