TY  - GEN
AU  - Beasley, Chris
AU  - Brook, Heather
TI  - The cultural politics of contemporary hollywood film: power, culture, and society
SN  - 9780719082986
U1  - 791.436581 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Politics in motion pictures
KW  - United States
N2  - Adopting and developing a ‘cultural politics’ approach, this comprehensive study explores how Hollywood movies generate and reflect political myths about social and personal life that profoundly influence how we understand power relations. Instead of looking at genre, it employs three broad categories of film. ‘Security’ films present ideas concerning public order and disorder, citizen–state relations and the politics of fear. ‘Relationalities’ films highlight personal and intimate politics, bringing norms about identities, gender and sexuality into focus. In ‘socially critical’ films, particular issues and ideas are endowed with more overtly political significance. The book considers these categories as global political technologies implicated in hegemonic and ‘soft power’ relations whose reach is both deep and broad
ER  -