Presidents in the movies : American history and politics on screen
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Presidents in the movies : American history and politics on screen
(The evolving American presidency series)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Cinematic depictions of real U.S. presidents from Abraham Lincoln to George W. Bush explore how Hollywood movies represent American history and politics on screen. Morgan and his contributors show how films blend myth and reality to present a positive message about presidents as the epitome of America's values and idealism until unpopular foreign wars in Vietnam and Iraq led to a darker portrayal of the imperial presidency, operated by Richard Nixon and Bush 43. This exciting new collection further considers how Hollywood has continually reinterpreted historically significant presidents, notably Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, to fit the times in which movies about them were made.
Table of Contents
- Transition: The Making of Screen Presidents
- I.Scott D. W. Griffith's Lincoln
- M.Stokes The 'Picture Man:' The Cinematic Strife of Theodore Roosevelt
- B.Neve Darryl F. Zanuck's Wilson (1944)
- M.Wheeler The 'Confidence' President: Franklin D. Roosevelt in Film
- H.Keyishian The Cinematic Kennedy: Thirteen Days and the Burnishing of an Image
- M.White The President Impeached: Tennessee Johnson and Nixon
- I.Morgan Oliver Stone's Improbable ' W. '
- K.Marshall
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