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The "Disguised" Political Film in Contemporary Hollywood - A Genre's Construction (Paperback)
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The "Disguised" Political Film in Contemporary Hollywood - A Genre's Construction (Paperback)
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With strict guidelines on methodology and time frame -- films
produced after September 2001, and a socio-semiotic theoretical
framework -- Betty Kaklamanidou unpacks the problematic terms and
ideas that go along with defining a new genre. Kaklamanidou
considers a different sub-genre per chapter, placing each group of
films in their socio-historical context to reach conclusions about
the production of political films in millennial Hollywood. In
shifting the terms of the debate, The "Disguised" Political Film in
Contemporary Hollywood offers a fresh, new approach to the subject
of the political film. The political film is not a clearly
delineated object but rather an elusive one and resistant to clear
boundaries. So, what is a political film? Can The Hunger Games
(2012) belong to the same category as Lincoln (2012)? Is Jarhead
(2005) a political movie simply because it is set during the Gulf
War but with no reference to the motives of the conflict and/or
American and Arab relations, and thus in the same group of war
films such as The Three Kings (1999), another narrative that
focuses on the same military conflict but includes direct
commentary to governmental and military strategies? Are historical
films by definition political since the majority deals with
significant events and/or people in a specific socio -cultural
landscape?
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