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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Auteurs principaux: Beasley, Chris (Auteur), Brook, Heather (Auteur)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: Manchester : Manchester University Press 2019.
Accès en ligne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv18b5htn
Table des matières:
  • 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'.