American film and politics from Reagan to Bush Jr
By: edited by Philip John Davies and Paul Wells.
Contributors: Davies, Philip, 1948-; Wells, Paul, 1961-
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Manchester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- United States; United States -- Politics and government -- 1981-1989; United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
Notes: Filmography: p. [220]-226.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-219) and index.
Table of contents: title: American cinema, political criticism and pragmatism : a therapeutic reading of Fight Club and Magnolia / Paul Watson; title: Hollywood in elections and elections in Hollywood / Philip John Davies; title: Oliver Stone's presidential films / Albert Auster; title: Gender and family values in the Clinton presidency and 1990s Hollywood film / Carol R. Smith; title: New York City in American film / Leonard Quart; title: Dixie's land : cinema of the American South / Ralph Willett; title: Independent cinema and modern Hollywood : pluralism in American cultural politics? / Brian Neve; title: "I wanna be like you-oo-oo" : Disnified politics and identity from Mermaid to Mulan / Paul Wells; title: Ambiguity and anger : representations of African Americans in contemporary Hollywood film / Mary Ellison; title: The adversarial imagination / Phil Melling.