Movies and politics the dynamic relationship
Collecting together some of the best thinking about the relationship between movies and politics, this book, originally published in 1993, encourages an awareness of the political dimension of film, both for film scholars and those entering the film industry. Eight essays are grouped into four parts...
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Routledge Garland Publishing, Inc.
2014
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 1: Political Ideology and Movie Narrative
- 1. Who's Running this Show? : Ideology, Formula and Hegemony in American Film and Television
- 2. Film, Politics, and Ideology: Toward a Multiperspectival Film Theory
- Part 2: Political Myth in the Movies
- 3. The Prices of Power: Women's Depictions in Film
- 4. Leatherstocking in 'Nam: Rambo, Platoon, and the American Frontier Myth
- Part 3: Political History and Movie Culture
- 5. "Grief in the Limelight": Al Capone, Howard Hughes, the Hays Code and the Politics of the Unstable Text
- 6. Designing Multi-Cultural America: Modern Movie Theatres and the Politics of Public Space 1920-1945
- Part 4: Political Communication and the Movies
- 7. Politics and Auteurs: From Chaplin to Wajda
- 8. Political Propaganda in the Movies: A Typology