Politics, Hollywood Style : American Politics in Film from Mr. Smith to Selma 9781498551939, 9781498551922

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Politics, Hollywood Style : American Politics in Film from Mr. Smith to Selma
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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748612468); How is the American political landscape represented in cinema?

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The large literature about the politics of Hollywood in the period of McCarthy and the blacklist has largely overlooked

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The concept of “un-Americanism,” so vital to the HUAC crusade of the 1940s and 1950s, was resoundingly revived in the em

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Young Mr. Smithc's diaries and letters, from 1839 to 1858, have been edited by his graddaughter and deftly interwov

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Examines how Hollywood responded to and reflected the political and social changes that America experienced during the 1

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Hollywood has a growing fascination with America's past. This is evidenced in the release of a rash of films of thi

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748626038'); The film sequel has been much maligned in popular cultur

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An in-depth look at the portrayal of Asian characters by non-Asian actors in classical Hollywood film.

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An in-depth look at the portrayal of Asian characters by non-Asian actors in classical Hollywood film.

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A new approach to one of the most memorable decades in recent history.

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