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American presidents and Oliver Stone : Kennedy, Nixon, and Bush between history and cinema
- Title
- American presidents and Oliver Stone : Kennedy, Nixon, and Bush between history and cinema / Carl Freedman.
- Author
- Freedman, Carl Howard
- Publication
- Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : Intellect Books, 2020.
- ©2020
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- Description
- 238 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Perhaps no current filmmaker has made more provocative films about American history than Oliver Stone. In this book, Carl Freedman gives a detailed and nuanced account of the presidencies of John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and George W. Bush as fictionalized in Stone's biographical films JFK, Nixon, and W. Synthesizing film criticism with political and historical analysis, American Presidents and Oliver Stone transcends the limitations of formalism and empiricism, reflecting on both Stone's achievements as a filmmaker and American politics of the past sixty years. Offering detailed historical perspectives alongside careful aesthetic criticism, Freedman explores how Stone uses melodrama, tragedy, and farce to transform politics into national mythology. Wide-ranging, accessible, and highly original, American Presidents is sure to engage anyone interested in the intersection of American politics and cinema.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-215) and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: I. Kennedy: Icon -- To Assassinate a Movie -- JFK: American Melbourne -- Precursor-Texts: Rashomon and Citizen Kane -- JFK: Conspiracy -- JFK: Father-Leader -- JFK: Son-Avenger -- II. Nixon: Tragic Hero-Villain -- From Kennedy to Nixon -- From Melodrama to Tragedy -- From JFK to Nixon -- Nixon: Personal Tragedy -- Nixon: National Tragedy -- Nixon: American Tragedy -- Conclusion -- III. Bush: (Un)Fortunate Son -- From Tragedy to Farce -- W.: The Man -- W.: The War.
- Call Number
- MWES (Stone, O.) 21-774
- ISBN
- 9781789382624
- 1789382629
- 9781789382648 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781789382631 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 1197736145
- Author
- Freedman, Carl Howard, author.
- Title
- American presidents and Oliver Stone : Kennedy, Nixon, and Bush between history and cinema / Carl Freedman.
- Publisher
- Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : Intellect Books, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-215) and index.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781789382648
- Research Call Number
- MWES (Stone, O.) 21-774