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Film and the American Presidency

Film and the American Presidency

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Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

Film StudiesGeneral SociologyUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 1138067253
ISBN13: 9781138067257
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 3 2019
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The contention of Film and the American Presidency is that over the twentieth century the cinema has been a silent partner in setting the parameters of what we might call the presidential imaginary. This volume surveys the partnership in its longevity, placing stress on especially iconic presidents such as Lincoln and FDR. The contributions to this collection probe the rich interactions between these high institutions of culture and politics-Hollywood and the presidency-and argue that not only did Hollywood acting become an idiom for presidential style, but that Hollywood early on understood its own identity through the presidency's peculiar mix of national epic and unified protagonist.

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