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Fascism and millennial American cinema
- Title
- Fascism and millennial American cinema / Leighton Grist.
- Author
- Grist, Leighton
- Publication
- London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
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Details
- Description
- ix, 242 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- This book examines a spate of American films released around the turn of the millennium that differently address the actuality or possibility of domestic fascism within the USA. The films discussed span a diversity of forms, genres and production practices, and encompass low- and medium-budget studio and independent releases (such as American History X, Stir of Echoes and The Believer), star and/or auteur vehicles (such as The Siege, Fight Club and American Beauty), and high-budget, high-concept science-fiction films and franchises (such as Starship Troopers, Minority Report, the Matrix and X-Men trilogies and the Star Wars prequels). Central to the book is the detailed analysis of the films, which is contextualized historically in relation to a period that saw the significant rise of the far Right. The book concordantly affords a wider insight into fascism and its various manifestations and how such have been, and continue to be, registered within American cinema.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : fascism and American cinema -- Skinheads, racism, (neo-)Nazism and the family -- Patriots and militias, fascism and the state -- A (fascist) new world order / a (fascistically contested) new world order -- The Übermensch, its avatars and the ordinary -- Conclusion : the world turns.
- Call Number
- MFL 18-4587
- ISBN
- 1137595655
- 9781137595652
- OCLC
- 1023524337
- Author
- Grist, Leighton, author.
- Title
- Fascism and millennial American cinema / Leighton Grist.
- Publisher
- London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 18-4587