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Film and the American Presidency (Paperback)
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Film and the American Presidency (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies
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The contention of Film and the American Presidency is that over the
twentieth century the cinema has been a silent partner in setting
the parameters of what we might call the presidential imaginary.
This volume surveys the partnership in its longevity, placing
stress on especially iconic presidents such as Lincoln and FDR. The
contributions to this collection probe the rich interactions
between these high institutions of culture and politics-Hollywood
and the presidency-and argue that not only did Hollywood acting
become an idiom for presidential style, but that Hollywood early on
understood its own identity through the presidency's peculiar mix
of national epic and unified protagonist. Additionally, they
contend that studios often made their films to sway political
outcomes; that the performance of presidential personae has been
constrained by the kinds of bodies (for so long, white and male)
that have occupied the office, such that presidential embodiment
obscures the body politic; and that Hollywood and the presidency
may finally be nothing more than two privileged figures of
media-age power.
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