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Author Dickenson, Ben.

Title Hollywood's new radicalism : war, globalisation and the movies from Reagan to George W. Bush / Ben Dickenson.

Imprint London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  791.43658 D557h 2006    ---  Available
Description xvi, 216 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series Cinema and society series
Cinema and society.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-211) and index.
Contents pt. 1. The inheritance -- The creation of modern Hollywood -- The movement last time -- Greed is good -- The liberal Hollywood response to Reagan -- War - studio spectacle and directorial detractors -- Challenge of the creative community -- pt. 2. The crisis of Hollywood liberalism -- The context for Clinton -- Clinton, heroism and the liberal Hollywood tradition -- Globalisation and the alternative media expose of Clinton -- The president's Hollywood friends -- Progressive Hollywood responds -- the new anti-corporate thread -- Steven Soderbergh and the brief independent boom -- Race and the independent movie -- Money can't buy you Bill -- Crisis of the progressive agenda -- Old heroes - Warren Beatty -- New heroes -- Reinventing the liberal tradition -- The new liberal aesthetic - the individual in society.
pt.3. The next generation -- 'Oooo! We hate Bush and we hate Bush ... -- The new movement - Seattle and Cradle Will Rock -- Globalisation and George Bush Jr -- Local and global -- Anti-capitalism in the mainstream -- Progressive ideology and activism in Hollywood -- The anti-capitalist aesthetic and its ambiguous brother -- Copying the independent gun movie -- Trans-national Hollywood business -- Michael Moore's radical documentary phenomenon -- War, resistance, unity -- Individualist film and the collective spirit -- Hey! Arnie, the election.
Subject Motion pictures -- Political aspects.
Motion picture industry.
ISBN 1845111036 (pbk.)
1845110250 (hbk.)
9781845110253 (hbk.)
9781845111038 (pbk.)
Standard No. NLGGC 27676014X
YDXCP 100395926
YDXCP 100406360
NZ1 9478193

 
    
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