Matthew Alford

Reel Power

Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy

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Hollywood is often characterised as a stronghold of left-liberal ideals. In Reel Power, Matthew Alford shows that it is in fact deeply complicit in serving the interests of the most regressive US corporate and political forces. Films like Transformers, Terminator: Salvation and Black Hawk Down are constructed with Defence Department assistance as explicit cheerleaders for the US military, but Matthew Alford also emphasises how so-called 'radical' films like Three Kings, Hotel Rwanda and Avatar present watered-down alternative visions of American politics that serve a similar function. Reel Power i… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-7453-2982-6
EAN: 9780745329826
Produktnummer: 20568574
Verlag: Pluto Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 240 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.4 cm 326 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 326

Über den Autor

Matthew Alford is the author of Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy (Pluto, 2010). He has written for the Guardian, New Statesman and the BBC. He has also lectured at the Universities of Bath and Bristol.