Film and the American Presidency (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Menne, Jeff; Long, Christian B.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The contention of Film and the American Presidency is that over the twentieth century the cinema has been a silent partner in setting the parameters of what we might call the presidential imaginary. This volume surveys the partnership in its longevity, placing stress on especially iconic presidents such as Lincoln and FDR. The contributions to this collection probe the rich interactions between these high institutions of culture and politics-Hollywood and the presidency-and argue that not only did Hollywood acting become an idiom for presidential style, but that Hollywood early on understood its own identity through the presidency's peculiar mix of national epic and unified protagonist.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135049911
• Artikelnr.: 42366874

Autorenporträt

Jeff Menne is Assistant Professor and Program Director of Screen Studies at Oklahoma State University, USA. His essays have appeared in Representations, Cinema Journal, Post Script, and elsewhere. Christian B. Long works in the Academic Language and Learning unit at Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and he is also an honorary research fellow at The University of Queensland, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Fictional Lives of American Presidents Jeff Menne and Christian B.
Long Part I: Early Cinema and the Classicalizing of the Presidential Image
2. The Media Reconfigured: The US Presidential Elections of 1892 and 1896
Charles Musser 3. "So typically Southern": Abraham Lincoln, the New South,
and the Romance of Reunion David Hoogland Noon 4. Mr. Lincoln by Mr. Ford
and Mr. Griffith: Image and History in American Cinema Tom Gunning 5.
Wilson and the War Effort: Film, Pedagogy, and the Presidency Josh Glick
Part II: FDR and the Mediated President 6. The Talented Mr. Roosevelt
Jennifer Fay and Scott J. Juengel 7. The Vanishing President Jonathan
Auerbach Part III: Post-Classical Presidents 8. Clean Cuts: Kennedy
Modernism on Screen J.D. Connor 9. LBJ and the Astronauts Jeff Menne 10.
Richard Nixon and the Arts of Power Deak Nabers Part IV: Beyond the
Reaganite Presidential Imaginary 11. Angry Presidents: Hollywood Film and
the Post-9/11 American Presidency Susan Jeffords 12. Obama and the (Raced)
Presidential Imaginary Diane Rubenstein Part V: The Mise-en-Scene of the
Presidency 13. Anna Deavere Smith and Her West Wing Residencies Jacqueline
O'Connor 14. The Mysteries of Washington DC: Hollywood's White House
Tunnels Christian B. Long Afterword Dana D. Nelson