| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 367 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: the cultural politics of popular film -- Frames -- Security: order and disorder -- War and order -- Disorder and fear -- Fearsome monsters -- Gender and intimate relationships -- Romance -- Bromance -- Against the grain? Socially critical movies -- Questioning the critical -- The big picture: the 'metropole' and peripheral 'others' -- Responses from 'the margins' |
| Summary |
Adopting and developing a 'cultural politics' approach, this comprehensive study explores how Hollywood movies generate and reflect political myths about social and personal life that profoundly influence how we understand power relations. Instead of looking at genre, it employs three broad categories of film. 'Security' films present ideas concerning public order and disorder, citizen-state relations and the politics of fear. 'Relationalities' films highlight personal and intimate politics, bringing norms about identities, gender and sexuality into focus. In 'socially critical' films, particular issues and ideas are endowed with more overtly political significance. The book considers these categories as global political technologies implicated in hegemonic and 'soft power' relations whose reach is both deep and broad |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-337), filmography (pages 338-359) , and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Politics in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
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Motion pictures -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 21st century
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Politics in motion pictures
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Motion pictures
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California -- Los Angeles
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brook, Heather, author
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| ISBN |
9781526135742 |
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1526135744 |
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9781526135759 |
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1526135752 |
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