Projecting Politics by Elizabeth Haas, Terry Christensen, Pet... - 9780765635969

Projecting PoliticsPolitical Messages in American Films\nAuthor(s): Elizabeth Haas, Terry Christensen, Peter J. Haas\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780765635969, 978-0765635969\nSynopsis\nThe new edition of this influential work updates and expands the scope of the original, including more sustained analyses of individual films, from The Birth of a Nation to The Wolf of Wall Street. An interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between American politics and popular films of all kindsincluding comedy, science fiction, melodrama, and action-adventureProjecting Politics offers original approaches to determining the political contours of films, and to connecting cinematic language to political messaging. A new chapter covering 2000 to 2013 updates the decade-by-decade look at the Washington-Hollywood nexus, with special areas of focus including the post-9/11 increase in political films, the rise of political wa.