| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 367 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| 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. |
| 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'. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Politics in motion pictures.
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Politics in motion pictures. |
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Motion pictures -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
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Motion pictures. |
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California -- Los Angeles. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 21st century.
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| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Brook, Heather, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Beasley, Chris. Cultural politics of contemporary Hollywood film. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019 0719082986 (OCoLC)1038473581 |
| ISBN |
9781526135742 (electronic book) |
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1526135744 (electronic book) |
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9781526135759 (epub) |
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1526135752 (epub) |
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9780719082986 (hardback) |
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0719082986 (hardback) |
| Standard No. |
10.7765/9781526135742 |
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