Screening Politics: The Politician in American Movies - Softcover

Keyishian Professor Emeritus Of English Fairleigh Dickinson University And Former D, Harry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810858827 ISBN 13: 9780810858824

Publisher: Scarecrow Press, 2006

Synopsis

This reference guide provides detailed discussions of over 50 movies about American politics and politicians, from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) and All the King's Men (1949) to Air Force One (1997) and Thirteen Days (2001).

About this title

About the Author:

Harry Keyishian is Professor of English, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey.

Review:

Keyishian (English, Fairleigh Dickinson U.) describes and analyzes more than 50 films dealing with politicians and the political process in the U.S. He provides an overview of the development of the genre in the introduction, while the main part of the volume consists of alphabetically arranged entries discussing individual films. This is the first paperback edition of a work previously published in 2003. (Reference and Research Book News)

This book is an eclectic anthology about fifty-eight feature films released over a neat seven-decade period....interesting... (The Journal of Popular Culture)

Harry Keyishian discusses how films help to shape our understanding of the American political process. He shows how the populist films of the Depression era, with their endorsement of the progressive ideals of Roosevelt's New Deal, gave way to a generally more ambiguous view of politics and politicians after World War II. . . Keyishian points out that despite the cynicism of the post-Watergate era, or perhaps precisely because of it, the reedemer hero of the 1930s has returned. (Film Quarterly, Winter 2007-08)

About this edition

• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0810858827
• ISBN 13: 9780810858824
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224