Hollywood is often characterised as a stronghold of left-liberal ideals. In Reel Power, Matthew Alford shows that it is in fact deeply complicit in serving the interests of the most regressive US corporate and political forces.
Films like Transformers, Terminator: Salvation and Black Hawk Down are constructed with Defence Department assistance as explicit cheerleaders for the US military, but Matthew Alford also emphasises how so-called ‘radical’ films like Three Kings, Hotel Rwa...
Daftar Isi
PART ONE: CONTROLLING THE DREAM FACTORY
1. Hollywood Screened
2. Hollywood Deactivated
PART TWO: POWER PROJECTED
3. War Films
4. Comedies
5. Action Adventure
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Michael Parenti is an award-winning author, scholar, and lecturer. He is the author of God and His Demons (2010), Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader (2007)...