American Cinema and Cultural Diplomacy: The Fragmented Kaleidoscope

by Thomas Cobb

Book Overview

This book contends that Hollywood films help illuminate the incongruities of various periods in American diplomacy. From the war film Bataan to the Revisionist Western The Wild Bunch, cinema has long reflected US foreign policy's divisiveness both directly and allegorically. Beginning with the 1990s presidential drama The American President and concluding with Joker's allegorical treatment of the Trump era, this book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030426807
• ISBN13: 9783030426804
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"