Film and the American presidency /
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| Imprint: | New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015. |
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| Description: | xii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge advances in film studies ; 39 Routledge advances in film studies ; 39. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10291662 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 1. Early Cinema and the Presidency
- 1. The Role of Media in Presidential Elections
- 2. On Lincoln in D.W Griffith and John Ford
- 3. "So Typically Southern...": Abraham Lincoln and the Progressive Imaginary
- Part 2. FDR and the Mediated President
- 4. The Talented Mr. Roosevelt
- 5. Vanishing Presidential Power in The President Vanishes
- 6. The Beginning or the End of the Modern Presidency: Starring Harry Truman and the Atomic Bomb
- Part 3. Selling of the Postwar President
- 7. Clean Cuts: Kennedy Modernism on Screen
- 8. LBJ and the Astronauts
- 9. Nixon's Impersonated Presidency
- 10. Presidential Power and the Dark Side of George Lucas
- Part 4. In the Wake of Reagan's Hollywood Politics
- 11. Reagan's Image and the Conservative Movement
- 12. Obama and the (Raced) Presidential Imaginary
- Part 5. The Spaces of the Presidency
- 13. Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington: Expanding Presidential Space, Exposing Presidential Self
- 14. The Mysteries of the White House
- 15. Afterword