Here's Looking at You
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Here's Looking at You

Hollywood, Film and Politics, Fourth Edition

  1. 412 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Here's Looking at You

Hollywood, Film and Politics, Fourth Edition

About this book

Now in its updated and expanded fourth edition, Here's Looking at You: Hollywood, Film & Politics examines how the tangled relationship between Hollywood's global film industry and the politics of federal and state governments manifests itself in the real world of political campaigns and in the fictional world of Hollywood films.

The book contradicts the film industry's assertion that it produces nothing but entertainment. While it is true that the vast majority of Hollywood films are strictly commercial ventures, hundreds of movies—from Birth of a Nation to The Help, recreated stories like Argo and Zero Dark Thirty and historical pieces such as Lincoln and The Conspirator —contain political messages, both overt and covert.

This new edition begins with President Obama's re-election and includes new photos and statistical data, three new chapters and eight case studies that provide in-depth analysis of special films that are certain to challenge existing views and stimulate classroom discussion. Here's Looking at You serves as a basic text for courses in film and politics and as a supplement in American government and film studies courses. Film buffs and general readers will also find it of interest.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Illustrations
  4. Tables
  5. Preface to the Fourth Edition
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Prologue: President Obama Returns to the White House
  8. Chapter 1: Film and Politics: The Hollywood-Washington Connection
  9. Chapter 2: In Search of the Political Film
  10. Chapter 3: Nonfiction Film: Picturing Reality?
  11. Chapter 4: Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang: Hollywood, Sex and Violence
  12. Chapter 5: HUAC and the Blacklist: The Red Scare Comes to Hollywood
  13. Chapter 6: Real to Reel Politicians: Idealists, Saviors and Scoundrels
  14. Chapter 7: Picturing Justice: The Law and Lawyers in Hollywood Films
  15. Chapter 8: Hollywood Goes to War: From the Great War to the Good War to the Forgotten War
  16. Chapter 9: Remembering Vietnam on Film: Lessons Learned and Forgotten
  17. Chapter 10: Mission Accomplished?: Hollywood and the Afghanistan-Iraq War Films
  18. Chapter 11: Hollywood Confronts Nuclear War and Global Terrorism
  19. Chapter 12: Hollywood, Race and Obama: Feel-Good Racism
  20. Chapter 13: Hollywood and Women: Cracks in the Celluloid Ceiling
  21. Chapter 14: Epilogue: Is There a Future for Political Films in Hollywood?
  22. Notes
  23. Selected Bibliography
  24. Selected Filmography
  25. Index