The cultural politics of contemporary Hollywood film : power, culture and society /

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 broa...

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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awduron: Beasley, Chris (Awdur), Brook, Heather (Awdur)
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Manchester : Manchester University Press 2019.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv18b5htn
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 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'.