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Projecting politics : political messages in American films
Title
Projecting politics : political messages in American films / Elizabeth Haas, Terry Christensen, and Peter J. Haas.
ISBN
9780765635969
0765635968
9780765635976
0765635976
9781315720791
Edition
Second edition.
Publication
New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.
Copyright Notice Date
©2015
Physical Description
xi, 407 pages ; 26 cm
Notes
Revised edition of: Projecting politics: political messages in American film / Terry Christensen and Peter J. Haas.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 11, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: I. Studying Political Films
1. Setting the Scene: A Theory of Film and Politics
2. The Making of a Message: Film Production and Techniques, and Political Messages
3. Causes and Special Effects: The Political Environment of Film
II. Political Films by Decade
4. Politics in the Silent Movies
5. The 1930s: Political Movies and the Great Depression
6. The 1940s: Hollywood Goes to War
7. The 1950s: Anti-Communism and Conformity
8. The 1960s: From Mainstream to Counterculture
9. The 1970s: Cynicism, Paranoia, War, and Anticapitalism
10. The 1980s: New Patriotism, Old Reds, and a Return to Vietnam in the Age of Reagan
11. The 1990s: FX Politics
12. The Twenty-First Century: 9/11 and Beyond
III. Political Films by Topic
13. True Lies? The Rise of Political Documentaries
14. Film and the Politics of Race: The Minority Report
15. Women, Politics, and Film: All About Eve?
16. White House Down? Politics in Disaster
Appendix
Closing Credits: A Political Filmography.
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