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Independence day, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the Enola Gay / Michael Rogin.
Van Pelt Library PN1997. I4793 R64 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rogin, Michael.
- Series:
- BFI modern classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Independence Day (Motion picture).
- Physical Description:
- 96 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
- Other Title:
- Independence day
- Place of Publication:
- London : BFI Pub., 1998.
- Summary:
- Independence Day created a worldwide sensation when released in 1996. Combining comic-book science fiction on the grandest scale with spectacular special effects, Independence Day delighted audiences with its depiction of alien invaders reducing the White House to an inferno.
- Michael Rogin analyzes how the film reimagines American society and rewrites American history. Propaganda disguised as escapism, Independence Day salves American anxiety -- about race, sexuality, disease and war -- by means of delirious movie-making. Consummating the marriage of America's two top export industries -- entertainment and aerospace -- the film, says Rogin, is "the defining motion picture of Bill Clinton's America".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-90).
- ISBN:
- 0851706622
- OCLC:
- 39668352
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