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Haas, Elizabeth; Christensen, Terry; Haas, Peter J. - Projecting Politics - 9780765635969 - V9780765635969
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Projecting Politics

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Description for Projecting Politics hardcover. The new edition of this popular text explores the relationship between American politics and films of all types from comedies and dramas to biographies and documentaries. An online Instructor's Manual with discussion questions is available to adopters. Num Pages: 422 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFN; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 33. Weight in Grams: 929.

The new edition of this influential work updates and expands the scope of the original, including more sustained analyses of individual films, from The Birth of a Nation to The Wolf of Wall Street. An interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between American politics and popular films of all kinds—including comedy, science fiction, melodrama, and action-adventure—Projecting Politics offers original approaches to determining the political contours of films, and to connecting cinematic language to political messaging. A new chapter covering 2000 to 2013 updates the decade-by-decade look at the Washington-Hollywood nexus, with special areas of focus including the post-9/11 increase in political ... Read more

A companion website offers two additional appendices and further materials for those using the book in class.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc United States
Number of pages
422
Condition
New
Number of Pages
410
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780765635969
SKU
V9780765635969
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Haas, Elizabeth; Christensen, Terry; Haas, Peter J.
A recipient of a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in the Humanities, Elizabeth Haas has published in numerous journals and teaches film studies at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. The author of many books including Local Politics: Governing at the Grassroots, Terry Christensen is professor emeritus in the political science department at San Jose State University in California. ... Read more

Reviews for Projecting Politics
"This well-researched, clearly-written, and informative view of politics and film will be appreciated by scholars and students alike. The aptly-titled Projecting Politics systematically surveys, decade by decade, the history of overt and covert political messages in American films from the silent era to the present day in refreshingly readable prose. Whether addressing explicit movies about Democrats and Republicans or subtextual ... Read more

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