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Hollywood's New Radicalism : War, Globalisation and the Movies from Reagan to George W. Bush.
Title:
Hollywood's New Radicalism : War, Globalisation and the Movies from Reagan to George W. Bush.
Author:
Dickenson, Ben.
ISBN:
9780857713308
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (233 pages)
Series:
Cinema and Society
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- General Editor's Introduction -- Introduction -- Part One: The Inheritance -- The creation of modern Hollywood -- The movement last time -- 'Greed is good' -- The liberal Hollywood response to Reagan -- War - studio spectacle and directorial detractors -- Challenge of the creative community -- Part Two: The Crisis of Hollywood Liberalism -- The context for Clinton -- Clinton, heroism and the liberal Hollywood tradition -- Globalisation and the alternative media expose of Clinton -- The president's Hollywood friends -- Progressive Hollywood responds - the new anti-corporate thread -- Steven Soderbergh and the brief independent boom -- Race and the independent movie -- Money can't buy you Bill -- Crisis of the progressive agenda -- Old heroes - Warren Beatty -- New heroes - re-inventing the liberal tradition -- The new liberal aesthetic - the individual in society -- Part Three: The Next Generation -- 'Ooooo! We hate Bush and we hate Bush... -- The new movement - Seattle and 'Cradle Will Rock' -- Globalisation and George Bush Jr -- Local and global -- Anti-capitalism in the mainstream -- Progressive ideology and activism in Hollywood -- The anti-capitalist aesthetic and its ambiguous brother -- Copying the independent gun movie -- Trans-national Hollywood business -- Michael Moore's radical documentary phenomenon -- War, resistance, unity -- Individualist film and the collective spirit -- Hey! Arnie, the election -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
Described by Tony Garnett as 'an ambitious and refreshing book', Hollywood's New Radicalism is a timely and contentious account of the last twenty-five years of American cinema. Ben Dickenson tells the story of the corporate take-over of the movies in the 1970s, and the subsequent transformation of Hollywood into the dominant force in the global media industry. Writing from the intersection where politics, society and cinema meet, and using exclusive interviews with Hollywood personalities, he explores the radicalising effect of such changes on liberal filmmakers like Warren Beatty, Michael Moore and Sean Penn in the past decade. He demonstrates how left-wing messages smuggled their way into 1980s movies, found a fuller voice in independent American cinema during the 1990s and flirted with mainstream popularity at the start of the new millennium. Bringing the story up to and through the 2004 Presidential election, he reveals how important Hollywood figures have become key members of a vigorous left-wing opposition to George W. Bush's Presidency. _x000D_ _x000D_ 'Here's a book that explains how the industry we're in really works and how some of us try to get a human message through the system. Without question an enjoyable and stimulating read.' - Ed Asner_x000D_ _x000D_ Ambitious and refreshing. Ben Dickenson displays a rare and welcome use of political ideas, to make sense of Hollywood beyond its trivial surface.' - Tony Garnett.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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