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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDirector Sam Fuller said that film is a battlefield, and Reelpolitik is a fascinating report from the front. Drawing on her deep knowledge of politics and film history, Beverly Merrill Kelley has produced a work that is as entertaining as it is thought-provoking. Kelley expertly shows how movies have framed battles over competing political ideologies. In doing so, she tells us much about artistic visions and historical trends. -- John J. Pitney Jr., Roy P. Crocker Professor of American Politics, Claremont McKenna College
Movies provide a gateway to forming and understanding who we are as a nation. Never before has a book so adroitly dissected the sinews of connecting tissue between film, politics, and power. Beverly Kelley has finally connected dots in a way that is both erudite and entertaining. -- William Knoke, author of Bold New World: The Essential Road Map to the Twenty-first Century
Employing three pairs of ideological themes as analytic lenses, Kelley examines the history of American cinema and bids us to imagine anew what we think we know about politics and its significance in the history of cinema throughout the 20th century. -- Herbert E. Gooch III, California Lutheran University
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Tale of Two Cities
Chapter 3. Populism
Chapter 4. Elitism
Chapter 5. Fascism
Chapter 6. Antifascism
Chapter 7. Interventionism
Chapter 8. Isolationism
Chapter 9. Conclusion
Ideological Filmology
