The movies that document American history during the interwar years still hold relevance today. While we may be put off by the corny sentimentality popular at the time, we feel attracted, despite our 1990s veneer of sophistication, to healthy portions of unadulterated American spirit. Americans resist encumbering themselves with political labels, Kelley asserts, content to remain simultaneously fragmented between elitism and populism, isolationism and interventionism even today, yet remain somehow united by a fundamental essence they can't quite define but readily recognize as the American...
The movies that document American history during the interwar years still hold relevance today. While we may be put off by the corny sentimentality...
Reelpolitik II moves past typical left-right political distinctions to examine political ideologies cycling through United States history during the '50s and '60s. These eight Cold War movies especially equipped the moviegoer with a unique vantage point not only to scrutinize the arms race, the Red Scare, the Korean Conflict, and the Vietnam War, but also to observe the way film functions as a purveyor of American mythology, a megaphone to shout political messages, a metaphorical route to the emotions, a flattering mirror, an unflattering microscope, and a magic carpet ride back to the...
Reelpolitik II moves past typical left-right political distinctions to examine political ideologies cycling through United States history during the '...
