Cinema wars
Subtitle: Hollywood film and politics in the Bush-Cheney era
By: Douglas Kellner.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781405198233; 9781405198240
Subjects: 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; United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009; Politics in motion pictures; Terrorism in motion pictures; Iraq War, 2003- -- Motion pictures and the war
Description: 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, amongst others; Explores how some films in this era supported the Bush-Cheney regime, while others criticized the administration.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Confronting the horrors of the Bush/Cheney era: from documentary to allegory. The golden age of documentary; title: Real disaster films: from An inconvenient truth and environmental documentaries to fictional allegories; title: Climate change and environmental crisis documentaries; title: Critical animated visions; title: Social apocalypse in disaster, horror and fantasy films; title: Hollywood's 9/11 and spectacles of terror. 9/11 as disaster film and spectacle of terror; title: Representations of 9/11 in Hollywood film: United 93 and World Trade Center; title: Disney television Republican propaganda: the path to 9/11; title: Hollywood's terror war; title: Michael Moore's provocations. Michael Moore, Emile de Antonio, and the politics of documentary film; title: Roger and me and the documentary of personal witnessing: issues of capitalism and class; title: Bowling for Columbine and exploratory documentary: guns, U.S. history, the military, and violence; title: Fahrenheit 9/11 and agit-prop: from the stolen election to 9/11 and Iraq; title: Sicko and the Michael Moore genre; title: From realism to allegory and satire: Hollywood political critiques of the Bush/Cheney regime. The Hollywood political thriller as social critique; title: The Star wars prequels as anti-Bush/Cheney allegory; title: Jabs and blows against the regime: from satire to dystopia; title: The cinematic Iraq War. Documenting and dissecting the invasion and occupation; title: Interpreting the Iraq fiasco; title: Iraq and its aftermath in fiction films; title: Conclusion: cinema as art, industry, and site of struggle; title: Hollywood films in the age of Bush-Cheney: a contested terrain; title: Some final reflections on film and politics in the contemporary moment.