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Chapter 1 Setting the Scene: A Theory of Film and Politics The purpose of this chapter is to explore the difficulty in classifying political films as a genre in the apparently uncontested manner in which other film genres exist both […]
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Chapter 10 The 1980s: New Patriotism, Old Reds, and a Return to Vietnam in the Age of Reagan The purpose of this chapter is to examine the politics–film nexus during the conservative Reagan era, one of the most fertile and […]
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Chapter 11 The 1990s: FX Politics The purpose of this chapter is to examine the post-Reagan economic boom times of the 1990s as characterized by the political films of the decade. The shift from the conservative Reagan–Bush years to the […]
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Chapter 12 The Twenty-First Century: 9/11 and Beyond The purpose of this chapter is to examine the post 9/11 era of popular American political filmmaking and to chart the effects of the George W. Bush foreign policy and domestic politics […]
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Chapter 13 True Lies? The Rise of Political Documentaries The purpose of this chapter is to look at the increasing number of politically salient documentaries produced over the past two decades and analyze them for their political content and intent […]
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Chapter 14 Film and the Politics of Race: The Minority Report The purpose of this chapter is to explore racially conscious films for their political content and the intentions of their makers. Focused selectively on the evolution of films by […]
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Chapter 15 Women, Politics, and Film: All About Eve? The purpose of this chapter is to explore the role of women in politically overt and socially reflective popular films, arguing that the most unambiguously political films with prominent women characters […]
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Chapter 16 White House Down? Politics in Disaster The purpose of this chapter is to offer a concise history of the political messaging implicit to the disaster film genre, including apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic films. In keeping with the traditional ideology […]
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Chapter 2 The Making of a Message: Film Production and Techniques, and Political Messages The purpose of this chapter is to identify what we mean by political messages and analyze how each step in the filmmaking process can achieve the […]
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Chapter 3 Causes and Special Effects: The Political Environment of Film The purpose of this chapter is to show that movies are not created in a political vacuum but are directly and profoundly impacted by the social, political, and economic […]
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Chapter 4 Politics in the Silent Movies The purpose of this chapter is to examine the silent era of popular filmmaking and the political movements that informed them. Until the middle of the 1920s political films were numerous and popular. […]
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Chapter 5 The 1930s: Political Movies and the Great Depression The purpose of this chapter is to examine the rich era of political filmmaking that took place during the Great Depression and pre-war period. Economic hardship and political turmoil showed […]
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Chapter 6 The 1940s: Hollywood Goes to War The purpose of this chapter is to explore political films of the 1940s especially as they demonstrate the industry’s response to the outbreak of WWII abroad and to America’s eventual decision to […]
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Chapter 7 The 1950s: Anti-Communism and Conformity The purpose of this chapter is to explore political films of the 1950s, a time of economic prosperity, moderate to conservative American political leadership, Cold War politics, social conformity, urbanization, corporatization, and a […]
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Chapter 8 The 1960s: From Mainstream to Counterculture The purpose of this chapter is to show how popular film responded to the cultural and political upheaval of the 1960s. Invoked by the memory if not the actual record of the […]
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Chapter 9 The 1970s: Cynicism, Paranoia, War, and Anticapitalism The purpose of this chapter is to identify the relationship between the social and political trends of the 1970s and the political films of the period. As America went from Nixon […]