American history and contemporary Hollywood film.PN1995 2004-051365 0-8135-3621-9 American history and contemporary Hollywood film. McCrisken, Trevor B. and Andrew Pepper. Rutgers U. Press, [c]2005 227 p. $22.95 (pa) If not for Hollywood, many Americans would never know that the Road Warrior A person who frequently travels with laptop and cellphone. won the Revolution, one of the conspirators CONSPIRATORS. Persons guilty of a conspiracy. See 3 Bl. Com. 126-71 Wils. Rep. 210-11. See Conspiracy. against John Kennedy wore a bad hairpiece, or that a helicopter went down in Somalia in the previous century. Working at a much deeper level than that generally understood by the typical media consumer, McCrisken (American politics and international studies, U. of Warwick) and Pepper (English and American literature American literature, literature in English produced in what is now the United States of America. Colonial Literature American writing began with the work of English adventurers and colonists in the New World chiefly for the benefit of readers in , Queen's U., Belfast) examine 20 mainstream American films to show how they most often reaffirm myths about revolt, slavery, war, politics, racism and national trauma A national trauma is a crisis or a tragic experience which affects the spirit of a nation or an ethnicity, sometimes for generations to come. Large-scale disasters like war or genocide inevitably have this effect, but in an otherwise stable and prosperous country even a minor event set by earlier films, and how these more recent films can only be understood in the contexts of America's preoccupation with its role in the world, the delicacies of identity politics, and the globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation of the film business. |
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