American film and politics from Reagan to Bush Jr /
edited by Philip John Davies and Paul Wells.
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2002.
- viii, 229 p. ; 23 cm.
Filmography: p. [220]-226. Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-219) and index.
American cinema, political criticism and pragmatism : a therapeutic reading of Fight Club and Magnolia / Paul Watson -- Hollywood in elections and elections in Hollywood / Philip John Davies -- Oliver Stone's presidential films / Albert Auster -- Gender and family values in the Clinton presidency and 1990s Hollywood film / Carol R. Smith -- New York City in American film / Leonard Quart -- Dixie's land : cinema of the American South / Ralph Willett -- Independent cinema and modern Hollywood : pluralism in American cultural politics? / Brian Neve -- "I wanna be like you-oo-oo" : Disnified politics and identity from Mermaid to Mulan / Paul Wells -- Ambiguity and anger : representations of African Americans in contemporary Hollywood film / Mary Ellison -- The adversarial imagination / Phil Melling.
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Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States.
United States--Politics and government--1981-1989. United States--Politics and government--1989-