American Cinema and Cultural Diplomacy: The Fragmented Kaleidoscope

ISBN-13: 9783030426774 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 264 str.

Thomas Cobb

Opis

This book contends that Hollywood films help illuminate the incongruities of various periods in American diplomacy.

Recenzje

"This book is a good example of extenuating research, elaborated analysis and the open possibilities of interdisciplinary studies." (Elmy Lemus Soriano, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 41 (3), 2021)

Spis treści

Introduction.- Chapter 1: Rehabilitations of idealism - action, satire and the late 1990s.

Chapter 2: Unanticipated synergy - lost innocence in early 2000s war cinema.

Chapter 3: ‘The thaw’ - the 2004 election and questions of cultural diplomacy.

Chapter 4: Imperial overstretch and the nihilistic frontier - Western political allegory in the late 2000s.

Chapter 5: Apex of allegory - Blockbuster responses to the end of the Bush era.

Chapter 6 (concluding chapter): Forever fragmented - Obama to Trump and the new identitarianism of IR dichotomies.

O autorze

Dr Thomas J. Cobb is an Academic Writing Tutor at Coventry University, UK. He explored cinematic allegories of US diplomacy for his doctoral thesis at the University of Birmingham, UK, where he also tutors in American and Canadian Studies. He has publications in American Studies in Scandinavia and Film International.