Cinema Wars Hollywood Film and Politics in the Bush-Cheney Era

Name: Cinema Wars Hollywood Film and Politics in the Bush-Cheney Era
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ISBN: 9781405198240

ISBN-10: 1405198249

ISBN-13: 9781405198240

Edition: 2010

Authors: Douglas M. Kellner

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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 forces Films and documentaries discussed include: Black Hawk Down, The Dark Knight, Star Wars, Syriana, WALL-E, Fahrenheit 9/11 and other Michael Moore documentaries, and many more. Explores how some films in this era were supportive of the Bush-Cheney regime, while others criticized the administration, openly or otherwise Investigates Hollywood's treatment of a range of hot topics, from terrorism…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 11/27/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.10" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Douglas Kellner is the George F. Kneller Chair in the philosophy of education at UCLA and author of numerous books.



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



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



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



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



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



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