Politics Go to the Movies

International Relations and Politics in Genre Films and Television

Joel R. Campbell (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

408 Seiten

2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-3516-7 (ISBN)

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Movies and television series are excellent tools for teaching political science and international relations. Understanding how stories in various film and television genres illustrate political ideas can better assist students and fans understand and appreciate the political subtext of these media products. This book will examine five genres and their variants. The first is gangster movies, focusing on American and other organized crime, which reached its zenith in the films of Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese. Second are political thriller and action movies and television series. Superhero films and TV deal more with modern characters who seek to serve society as they deal with personal struggles and their individual identities. Fourth are war movies, which tend to promote positive images of wars when wars are perceived as successful, but can include antiwar messages when wars turn badly. Fifth are Western movies, which fell out of favor in the 1970s and 1980s, but have undergone a renaissance since the 1990s. Westerns can be taken as either political parables, or as meditations on policing, anarchy, community organization and informal leadership. These genres all offer escape, but can also offer political lessons.

Joel R. Campbell is associate professor of political science in the Pacific Region (Japan and South Korea) in the Global Campus program of Troy University, and teaches in the Masters of Science in International Relations (MSIR) program.

Introduction: Magic in the Dark—and Making the Most of a Dark Time

Chapter 1: Politics Go Hollywood: Making Sense of Genre Movies and Politics

Chapter 2: Gangsters Give Films and TV an Offer They Can’t Refuse

Chapter 3: Politics of Paranoia and Anger: Thriller and Action Movies

Chapter 4: Superheroes Save Our Politics and International Relations

Chapter 5: Movies Go to War: Shifting Images of Humans’ Most Searing Experience

Chapter 6: Let’s Play Cowboys and Politicos: The Imagined West, Society, and Politics

Chapter 7: Other Genres, Other Politics: From Love Stories to Religious Movies

Erscheinungsdatum	10.03.2022
Co-Autor	Daryl Bockett, Damien Horigan, Michael Mulvey, Barry Pollick
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 227 mm
Gewicht	794 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	1-7936-3516-1 / 1793635161
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-3516-7 / 9781793635167
Zustand	Neuware