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Title
Fascism and millennial American cinema / Leighton Grist.
ISBN
9781137595669 (electronic book)
1137595663 (electronic book)
1137595655
9781137595652
Imprint
London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
PN1993.5.U6
Dewey Decimal Classification
791.430973
Summary
This book examines a spate of American films released around the turn of the millennium that differently address the actuality or possibility of domestic fascism within the USA. The films discussed span a diversity of forms, genres and production practices, and encompass low- and medium-budget studio and independent releases (such as American History X, Stir of Echoes and The Believer), star and/or auteur vehicles (such as The Siege, Fight Club and American Beauty), and high-budget, high-concept science-fiction films and franchises (such as Starship Troopers, Minority Report, the Matrix and X-Men trilogies and the Star Wars prequels). Central to the book is the detailed analysis of the films, which is contextualized historically in relation to a period that saw the significant rise of the far Right. The book concordantly affords a wider insight into fascism and its various manifestations and how such have been, and continue to be, registered within American cinema. .
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed June 11, 2018).
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Print version: 9781137595652
Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Fascism, and American Cinema; I; II; III; IV; Bibliography; Chapter 2: Skinheads, Racism, (Neo-)Nazism and the Family; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; Bibliography; Chapter 3: Patriots and Militias, Fascism and the State; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; Bibliography; Chapter 4: A (Fascist) New World Order/A (Fascistically Contested) New World Order; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; Bibliography; Chapter 5: The Übermensch, its Avatars and the Ordinary; I; II; III; IV; VI; VII; Bibliography; Chapter 6: Conclusion: The World Turns; I; II; III; IV.
