1st Edition
Politics Goes to the Movies Hollywood, Europe, and Beyond
List of figures
Introduction
Chapter 1: Populism, race, and The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Chapter 2: Revolution!: Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Chapter 3: Leni Riefenstahl and "Fascinating Fascism": Triumph of the Will (1935)
Chapter 4: American democracy and Frank Capra: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Chapter 5: Revolution in the 1960s: The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Chapter 6: Revolutionary cinema in Latin America: Lucía (1968)
Chapter 7: Politics and the apocalypse: Weekend (1967)
Chapter 8: Reflections on Fascism: The Conformist (1970)
Chapter 9: The Cold War, part one: science fiction and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Chapter 10: The Cold War, part two: Point of Order (1964) and Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Chapter 11: Hollywood and the blacklist: Salt of the Earth (1954)
Chapter 12: Paranoia and political assassination: JFK (1991)
Chapter 13: Contemporary American politics: documentaries
Chapter 14: Contemporary American politics: new channels
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Robert P. Kolker is author of A Cinema of Loneliness; The Altering Eye: Contemporary International Cinema; Bernardo Bertolucci; The Cultures of American Film; Film, Form, and Culture; and The Extraordinary Image: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and the Reimagining of Cinema; and is co-author with Nathan Abrams of Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film (forthcoming). He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland.
