The Cultural Politics of Contemporary Hollywood Film: Power, Culture, and Society

✍ Scribed by Chris Beasley; Heather Brook

Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 381
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction: the cultural politics of popular film
Frames
PART I: SECURITY
Security: order and disorder
War and order
Disorder and fear
Fearsome monsters
PART II: RELATIONALITIES
Gender and intimate relationships
Romance
Bromance
PART III: SOCIAL CRITIQUE
Against the grain? Socially critical movies
Questioning the critical
PART IV: GLOBAL AGENDAS
The big picture: the ‘metropole’ and peripheral ‘others’
Responses from ‘the margins’
References
Filmography
Index

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