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Jane Fonda: There's a Great Deal to Say
Hardcover
Entertainment & Performing ArtsBiographies GeneralFilm Studies
Publisher Price: $29.95
ISBN13: 9781978841499
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: May 12 2026
Pages: 318
Weight: 1.36
Height: 1.03 Width: 6.23 Depth: 9.38
Language: English
Since the late 1960s, Jane Fonda has identified as an activist first and an actor second, using her celebrity as a vehicle to convey her views and her advocacy. Few stars of her stature have been as simultaneously acclaimed and vilified as Fonda. Even as she won two Academy Awards and was a major box office draw of the 1970s and 1980s, she received reams of hate mail for her political activism and antiwar stances. This book explores Fonda's devotion to movement politics--sometimes at the expense of her career and her personal safety.
Digging deep into rare material from cinema archives and Fonda's own personal papers, journalist Marilyn Greenwald tells the story of how Fonda came to view acting as a side gig that gives her a worldwide platform to convey her personal and political views. Charting the evolution of her activism and the merging of her acting and producing with her advocacy, Greenwald focuses on the years from 1968--when she was jarred out of complacency by the Vietnam War--to 1980, after the release of The China Syndrome and the advent of the Three Mile Island nuclear crisis, which brought to light the possible dangers of nuclear energy. Greenwald details how three of her films--Klute (1971), Coming Home (1978), and The China Syndrome (1979)--were designed to further her personal beliefs. She also considers how Fonda has weathered changes in the entertainment industry and public tastes to produce and star in decades' worth of socially conscious projects. Charting Fonda's personal and professional growth while offering a candid account of her struggles, this book shows how Fonda viewed movies as an influential storytelling tool that can influence public opinion, change minds, and trigger social change.
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