Movies, myth, & the national security state / Dan O'Meara [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Meara, Dan, 1948- author.

O’Meara, Dan, 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--United States--History.

Motion pictures.

National security in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 292 pages)

Other Title:

Movies, myth, and the national security state

Place of Publication:

Boulder, [Colorado] ; London, [England] : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2016.

Summary:

While analysts may agree that Hollywood movies have always both mirrored and helped to shape the tenor of their times, the question remains: Just how do they do it? And how do we identify the underlying political/ideological content of a film? Movies, Myth, and the National Security State answers these questions, exploring how Hollywood movies have served to propagate, or to debate, or sometimes to challenge the evolving US national security state since 1945. Drawing on more than a thousand films—and focusing in detail on 48 films that address key issues confronting the US and its sense of self and role in the world—the authors provide insights into US political life as it has developed across some seven decades.

Contents:

1 The national security state and Hollywood movies

2 John Ford's cavalry trilogy and the didactics of national security

3 McCarthyism, film noir and the national security state

4 Hitchcock: from the red scare to detente

5 The Hollywood revolution

6 The Hollywood counterrevolution

7 Vietnam - the sequel

8 National security for the "new world order"

9 Hollywood and the war in Iraq

10 Movies, myth and the national security state.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62637-707-3

9781626377073 (electronic book)

OCLC:

999307125