Reel Politics: American Political Movies from Birth of a Nation to Platoon

T. Christensen

DOI:10.2307/2073843

Corpus ID: 145006217

Reel Politics: American Political Movies from Birth of a Nation to Platoon

@inproceedings{Christensen1987ReelPA,
  title={Reel Politics: American Political Movies from Birth of a Nation to Platoon},
  author={T. Christensen},
  year={1987}
}

T. Christensen
Published 1987
Sociology

This book interprets the mutually influential relationship of political films and American culture. Surveying over two hundred films, Christensen identifies ways in which the genre has changed to reflect individual periods of history. In doing so, he builds the argument that even the most politically progressive of Hollywood's films are ultimately conservative, mirroring and reinforcing traditional American political values and maintaining the myths of American politics. Films examined include… Expand

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