Teaches us how to better understand political ads by attuning ourselves to their video rhetoric - their themes and stories, atmosphere and characterization, feelings and images, and their use of popular genres - from film to fiction, from MTV to game shows. This book is an example of a different kind of political analysis.
Teaches us how to better understand political ads by attuning ourselves to their video rhetoric - their themes and stories, atmosphere and characteriz...
Cinema, literature, and television shape our collective political understanding. Their dramas enact and test political ideas, especially when they use the political myths widely available in popular forms such as epics, noirs, and satires. Popular Cinema
Cinema, literature, and television shape our collective political understanding. Their dramas enact and test political ideas, especially when they use...
Popular movies can be surprisingly smart about politics. At times, these are the portentous politics of state or war; but often, they are the everyday politics of family, romance, business, church, and school. Politics in Popular Movies analyzes the politics in many well-known films in four popular forms: horror, war, thriller, and science fiction. The aims are to appreciate specific movies and their shared forms, to understand their many politics, and to provoke some rollicking conversations. The means are loosely related "film takes" that venture ambitious, playful, and engaging arguments...
Popular movies can be surprisingly smart about politics. At times, these are the portentous politics of state or war; but often, they are the everyday...
Popular movies can be surprisingly smart about politics - from the portentous politics of state or war, to the grassroots, everyday politics of family, romance, business, church and school. Politics in Popular Movies analyses the politics in many well-known films across four popular genres: horror, war, thriller and science fiction. The book's aims are to appreciate specific movies and their shared forms, to understand their political engagements and to provoke some insightful conversations. The means are loosely related 'film takes' that venture ambitious, playful and engaging arguments on...
Popular movies can be surprisingly smart about politics - from the portentous politics of state or war, to the grassroots, everyday politics of family...
The book presents cinematic case studies in political realism versus political idealism, demonstrating methods of viewing popular cinema as political theory. The book appreciates political myth-making in popular genres as especially practical and accessible theorizing about politics.
The book presents cinematic case studies in political realism versus political idealism, demonstrating methods of viewing popular cinema as political ...
