01746nam a22002177a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000070007604100080008308200220009110000260011324500560013926000320019530000290022736500790025652009700033565000420130594200120134799900190135995201500137820220910094333.0220910b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780745329833  cAL  aeng  223a808.823bALFR  aMatthew Alford957011  aReel powerbHollywood cinema and american supremacy  aNew YorkbPluto Pressc2010  axiii,218p.bHBc22x14cm.  2GeneralaWORDI/2022/CRB/1323b₹3486.00c₹d₹4980.00e30%f26-08-2022  aHollywood is often characterised as a stronghold of left-liberal ideals. In Reel Power, Matthew Alford shows that it is in fact deeply complicit in serving the interests of the most regressive US corporate and political forces.Films like Transformers, Terminator: Salvation and Black Hawk Down are constructed with Defence Department assistance as explicit cheerleaders for the US military, but Matthew Alford also emphasises how so-called 'radical' films like Three Kings, Hotel Rwanda and Avatar present watered-down alternative visions of American politics that serve a similar function.Reel Power is the first book to examine the internal workings of contemporary Hollywood as a politicised industry as well as scores of films across all genres. No matter what the progressive impulses of some celebrities and artists, Alford shows how they are part of a system that is hard-wired to encourage American global supremacy and frequently the use of state violence.  2 Rhetoric of dramaaLiterature957012  2ddccBK  c224558d224558  00102ddc40708MAJMCaSACPGbSACPGd2022-09-03eWord Bookshopg3486.00l0o808.823 ALFRpPG024003r2022-09-10 00:00:00v4980.00w2022-08-26yBK