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Author Forster, Douglas E., author

Title Deconstructing Reaganism : an analysis of American fantasy films / by Douglas E. Forster
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014

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Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary As in so many other areas of American society, the political legacy of Ronald Reagan had an imposing presence in many contemporary American films, particularly between 1980 and 2000. Six films, which collectively represent the spectrum of Reaganism's most popular tropes, demonstrate quite compellingly that in celebrating nostalgically the blissful pleasantries of family stability and social order so essential to Reagan's political philosophy, an unsettling and unsatisfying mythology has been ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Reagan, Ronald -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT Reagan, Ronald fast
Subject Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Popular culture -- Political aspects -- United States
Films, cinema.
Film theory & criticism.
Film: styles & genres.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Motion pictures
Popular culture -- Political aspects
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781443860772
1443860778
1306858747
9781306858748