Cinema wars : Hollywood film and politics in the Bush-Cheney era / / Douglas Kellner

• Autore: Kellner Douglas <1943->
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II