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Cinema wars : Hollywood film and politics in the Bush-Cheney era
- Title
- Cinema wars : Hollywood film and politics in the Bush-Cheney era / Douglas Kellner.
- Author
- Kellner, Douglas, 1943-
- Publication
- Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
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Details
- Description
- x, 279 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Environmental films > United States > History and criticism
- Politics in motion pictures
- Motion pictures > United States > History > 21st century
- Motion pictures > Political aspects > United States
- Terrorism in motion pictures
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Motion pictures and the war
- United States > Politics and government > 2001-2009
- Documentary films > Political aspects > History and criticism
- Documentary films > United States > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Confronting the horrors of the Bush/Cheney era: from documentary to allegory -- The golden age of documentary -- Real disaster films: from An inconvenient truth and environmental documentaries to animated allegories -- Allegories of catastrophe : social apocalypse is disaster, horror, and fantasy films -- Hollywood's 9/11 and spectacles of terror -- 9/11 as disaster film and spectacle of terror -- Representations of 9/11 in Hollywood film : United 93 and World Trade Center -- Disney television Republican propaganda : The path to 9/11 -- Hollywood's terror war -- Michael Moore's provocations -- Michael Moore, Emile de Antonio, and the politics of documentary film -- Roger and me and the documentary of personal witnessing -- Bowling for Columbine and exploratory documentary montage -- Fahrenheit 9/11 and partisan interventionists cinema -- Sicko and the Michael Moore genre -- Hollywood political critiques of the Bush-Cheney regime : from thrillers to fantasy and satire -- The Hollywood political thriller against the Bush-Cheney regime -- Star wars prequels as anti-Bush-Cheney allegory -- From satire to dystopia -- The cinematic Iraq War -- Documenting Iraq -- Interpreting the Iraq fiasco -- Iraq and its aftermath in fiction films -- Conclusion: Hollywood cinema wars in the 2000s -- Critical representations -- History lessons -- Final reflections.
- Call Number
- MFL 10-997
- ISBN
- 9781405198233 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1405198230 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781405198240 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1405198249 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009036207
- OCLC
- YBP 2009036207
- Author
- Kellner, Douglas, 1943-
- Title
- Cinema wars : Hollywood film and politics in the Bush-Cheney era / Douglas Kellner.
- Imprint
- Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 10-997