Echoes of Reaganism in Hollywood Blockbuster Movies from the 1980s to the 2010s
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Beschreibung
The book traces the reverberations of Ronald Reagan’s ideology in selected Hollywood blockbuster movies. The analysis includes filmic content as well as production and distribution. It is concluded that political metaphors and an economic setting inherited from the 1980s continue to shape the style and content of Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking.
This book examines the reverberations of key components of Ronald Reagan’s ideology in selected Hollywood blockbuster movies. The aim of this analysis is to provide a clearer understanding of the intertwinement of cinematic spectacles with neoliberalism and neoconservatism. The analysis comprises a dissection of Reagan’s presidential rhetoric and the examination of four seminal Hollywood blockbuster movies. The time range for analysis stretches from the 1980s until the 2010s. Among the key foci are filmic content as well as production and distribution contexts. It is concluded that Reagan’s political metaphors and the corporatization of film studios in the 1970s and 1980s continue to shape much of Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking.
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Ilias Ben Mna
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1980s 2010s Blockbuster cinema Echoes Film film history Hollywood Movies presidential rhetoric Reaganism US politics