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Here's looking at you : hollywood, film & politics / Ernest Giglio.

Title
Here's looking at you : hollywood, film & politics / Ernest Giglio.
Author
Giglio, Ernest.
Publication
New York : Peter Lang, 2010

Details

Description
358 p. ill.; 26 cm.
Summary
Now in its third edition, Here's Looking at You: Hollywood, Film and Politics examines the tangled relationship between politics and Hollywood, which manifests itself in celebrity involvement in political campaigns and elections, and in the overt and covert political messages conveyed by Hollywood films.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-318), selected filmography (p.319-341) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Mr. Obama goes to Washington -- One. Film and Politics -- Hollywood-Washington Connection -- Two. In Search of the Political Film -- From Casablanca to the Three Stooges -- Three. Nonfiction Film -- Investigating the Real -- Four. Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang -- Or How I Came to Love Sex and Violence on the Big Screen -- Five. HUAC and the Blacklist -- Red Scare Comes to Hollywood -- Six. Reel Politicians -- Seven. Picturing Justice -- Law and Lawyers in Hollywood Films -- Eight. Hollywood Goes to War -- From the Great War to the Good War to the Forgotten War -- Nine. Remembering Vietnam on Film -- Lessons Learned and Forgotten -- Ten. Mission Accomplished? -- Afghan-Iraqi War Films -- Eleven. Hollywood Confronts the Nuclear Holocaust -- Twelve. Hollywood, Race, and Gender -- In Search of Equal Treatment -- Thirteen. Does Political Film Have a Future in Hollywood?.
ISBN
  • 1433106442
  • 9781433106446