Cinema wars : Hollywood film and politics in the Bush-Cheney era / Douglas Kellner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kellner, Douglas, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--Political aspects--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Documentary films--United States--History and criticism.

Environmental films--United States--History and criticism.

Environmental films.

Iraq War, 2003-2011--Motion pictures and the war.

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--United States--History--21st century.

Politics in motion pictures.

Terrorism in motion pictures.

United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (477 p.)

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cinema Wars explores the intersection of film, politics, and US culture and society through a bold critical analysis of the films, TV shows, and documentaries produced in the early 2000s Offers a thought-provoking depiction of Hollywood film as a contested terrain between conservative and liberal forcesFilms and documentaries discussed include: Black Hawk Down, The Dark Knight, Star Wars, Syriana, WALL-E, Fahrenheit 9/11 and other Michael Moore documentaries, amongst othersExplores how some fil

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright; Acknowledgments; List of Plates; Introduction; Hollywood Film as a Contested Terrain; Cinema, Politics, and Social History: From Cinematic Realism to Allegory; Hollywood Film and the Contemporary Moment: Signs of the Times; Reading Film Diagnostically: Imagining Obama; In This Book; Notes; 1: Confronting the Horrors of the Bush-Cheney Era; The Golden Age of Documentary; Real Disaster Films: From An Inconvenient Truth and Environmental Documentaries to Animated Allegories; Allegories of Catastrophe: Social Apocalypse in Disaster, Horror, and Fantasy Films; Notes

2: Hollywood's 9/11 and Spectacles of Terror9/11 as Disaster Film and Spectacle of Terror; Representations of 9/11 in Hollywood Film: United 93 and World Trade Center; Disney Television Republican Propaganda: The Path to 9/11; Hollywood's Terror War; Notes; 3: Michael Moore's Provocations; Michael Moore, Emile de Antonio, and the Politics of Documentary Film; Roger and Me and the Documentary of Personal Witnessing; Bowling For Columbine and Exploratory Documentary Montage; Fahrenheit 9/11 and Partisan Interventionist Cinema; Sicko and the Michael Moore Genre; Notes

4: Hollywood Political Critiques of the Bush-Cheney RegimeThe Hollywood Political Thriller Against the Bush-Cheney Regime; Star Wars Prequels as Anti-Bush-Cheney Allegory; From Satire to Dystopia; Notes; 5: The Cinematic Iraq War; Documenting Iraq; Interpreting the Iraq Fiasco; Iraq and Its Aftermath in Fiction Films; Notes; Conclusion; Critical Representations; History Lessons; Final Reflections; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4443-6049-3

OCLC:

778339347