Fascism and Millennial American Cinema (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137595652)

This book examines a spate of American films released around the turn of the millennium that differently address the actuality or possibility of domestic fascism within the USA. The films discussed span a diversity of forms, genres and production practices, and encompass low- and medium-budget studio and independent releases (such as American History X, Stir of Echoes and The Believer), star and/or auteur vehicles (such as The Siege, Fight Club and American Beauty), and high-budget, high-concept science-fiction films and franchises (such as Starship Troopers, Minority Report, the Matrix and X-Men trilogies and the Star Wars prequels). Central to the book is the detailed analysis of the films, which is contextualized historically in relation to a period that saw the significant rise of the far Right. The book concordantly affords a wider insight into fascism and its various manifestations and how such have been, and continue to be, registered within American cinema.

Author: Leighton Grist
ISBN-10: 1137595655
ISBN-13: 9781137595652
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 06/12/2018
Pages: 242
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.63d