Independence day, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the Enola Gay / Michael Rogin.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Rogin, Michael.

Contributor:

• British Film Institute.

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