"The Politics of Hollywood Cinema radically transforms our understanding of cinema's potential to be politically engaging and challenging. Examining several films from Hollywood's classical era, including Marked Woman, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, Born Yesterday, On the Waterfro…
"The Politics of Hollywood Cinema radically transforms our understanding of cinema's potential to be politically engaging and challenging. Examining several films from Hollywood's classical era, including Marked Woman, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, Born Yesterday, On the Waterfro…
Argues that cinema creates realities, rather than merely representing or reproducing them, through the work of film theorists André Bazin, Christian Metz, Stanley Cavell, Gilles Deleuze, Slavoj Zizek, and Jacques Rancière.
