Fascism and millennial American cinema / Leighton Grist.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grist, Leighton, author.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund. PU

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--United States--History.

Motion pictures.

Fascism and motion pictures.

United States.

History.

Fascism and motion pictures--United States.

Physical Description:

ix, 242 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Summary:

This book examines a spate of American films released around the turn of the millennium that differently address the actuality or possibility of domestic fascism within the USA. The films discussed span a diversity of forms, genres and production practices, and encompass low- and medium-budget studio and independent releases (such as American History X, Stir of Echoes and The Believer), star and/or auteur vehicles (such as The Siege, Fight Club and American Beauty), and high-budget, high-concept science-fiction films and franchises (such as Starship Troopers, Minority Report, the Matrix and X-Men trilogies and the Star Wars prequels). Central to the book is the detailed analysis of the films, which is contextualized historically in relation to a period that saw the significant rise of the far Right. The book concordantly affords a wider insight into fascism and its various manifestations and how such have been, and continue to be, registered within American cinema.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1137595655

9781137595652

OCLC:

1023524337