Title: Oliver Stone's America
First published: 1996
Description: Oliver Stone, polemicist, leftist, artist, and - surprisingly for politically conservative America - mainstream director, is one of the most controversial American filmmakers in Hollywood. His films include JFK, Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Heaven and Earth, The Doors, Salvador, Talk Radio, Natural Born Killers, and Nixon - all political, passionate, and disturbing. This book embraces Stone's work, analyzes his films, and places him inside the tradition of American political filmmaking.

Mackey-Kallis argues that Stone's films are mythological constructions based on historical events and personae which draw upon "the inevitable tension between social actuality and film form." Not simply an aesthetic contemplation, this book analyzes Oliver Stone's films as artistically structured instruments for public communication. Ample illustrations illuminate her discussions.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Amerikabild, Politique au cinéma, Critique et interprétation, Cinéma, Aspect politique, Stone, oliver, 1946-, Film criticism, Motion pictures, social aspects, Politics in motion pictures, Motion pictures, Political aspects
People: Oliver Stone
LC classification: PN1998.3.S76 M23 1996