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Book SynopsisThis study covers two decades in American history, when the links between Hollywood and Washington were at their strongest, a period "book-ended" by the political and cinematic figures of Reagan and Clinton. During this period movies became targets of political rhetoric of "family values".
Table of ContentsIntroduction - Philip John Davies & Paul Wells
1. American cinema, political criticism and pragmatism: A therapeutic reading of Fight Club and Magnolia - Paul Watson
2. 'Ask not what America can do for you…': Views from the White House: Hollywood in elections and elections in Hollywood - Philip John Davies
3. Oliver Stone's presidential films - Albert Auster
4. '…in order to form a more perfect union': some manifest destinies: Gender and family values in the Clinton presidency and 1990s Hollywood film - Carol R. Smith
5. '…and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea': crossing boundaries: New York City in American film - Leonard Quart
6. Dixie's land: Cinema of the American South - Ralph Willett
7. '…into the crucible with you all, God is making the American…': melting pots and pans: Independent Cinema and modern Hollywood: pluralism in American cultural politics - Brian Neve
8. 'I wanna be like you-oo-oo': Disnified politics and identity from 'The Little Mermaid' to' Mulan' - Paul Wells
9. 'Oh! Say, does the star-spangled banner yet wave, o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?' : contemporary conflict and contradiction: Ambiguity and Anger : Representations of African Americans in contemporary Hollywood film - Mary Ellison
10. The Adversarial Imagination - Phil Melling
