The cultural politics of contemporary Hollywood film
Power, culture and society
by Chris Beasley, Heather Brook
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Adopting and developing a new syncretic 'cultural politics' approach to popular movies, this comprehensive and up-to-date book interrogates what Hollywood tells us about the world and our place in it, and offers insights into both the pleasures and problems associated with what we watch. 'Cultural politics' refuses the easy separation of art and power, film and realpolitik, and instead begins from the understanding that movies are never politically innocent. Rather, Hollywood movies generate and reflect political myths about nation, society, community and personal life that profoundly and repeatedly influence how we understand our world and ourselves. Hollywood film is very often analysed by genre. This book takes a very different approach in considering film as a political technology and illustrates this original framing of films in terms of three categories: security, relationalities, and social critique. Ideas concerning public order and disorder, citizen-state relations, and the politics of fear surface in 'security' films. '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. Yet these films are revealed to be no less political than those deemed merely escapist recreation and their critical claims are by no means self-evident. Finally, the political myths which characterise these films are considered, in this book, in the context of Hollywood's global reach and impact. Readers with an interest in the study of culture, film, media, communications, politics, sociology, gender and sexuality at any level will find this innovative book offers them new ways to understand movies and their effects. With a foreword by Douglas Kellner.
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Adopting and developing a new syncretic 'cultural politics' approach to popular movies, this comprehensive and up-to-date book interrogates what Hollywood tells us about the world and our place in it, and offers insights into both the pleasures and problems associated with what we watch. 'Cultural politics' refuses the easy separation of art and power, film and realpolitik, and instead begins from the understanding that movies are never politically innocent. Rather, Hollywood movies generate and reflect political myths about nation, society, community and personal life that profoundly and repeatedly influence how we understand our world and ourselves. Hollywood film is very often analysed by genre. This book takes a very different approach in considering film as a political technology and illustrates this original framing of films in terms of three categories: security, relationalities, and social critique. Ideas concerning public order and disorder, citizen-state relations, and the politics of fear surface in 'security' films. '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. Yet these films are revealed to be no less political than those deemed merely escapist recreation and their critical claims are by no means self-evident. Finally, the political myths which characterise these films are considered, in this book, in the context of Hollywood's global reach and impact. Readers with an interest in the study of culture, film, media, communications, politics, sociology, gender and sexuality at any level will find this innovative book offers them new ways to understand movies and their effects. With a foreword by Douglas Kellner.
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date January 2019
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780719082986 / 0719082986
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- ReadershipGeneral/trade
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions216 X 138 mm
- Reference Code1428
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