Flatlining on the Field of Dreams: Cultural Narratives in the Films of President Reagan's America

by Alan Nadel

Book Overview

"Flatlining on the Field of Dreams takes a apart some of the most commercially successful films of the epoch, demonstrating how they reflected, debated, and played with the dominant ideology of the time. . . . cleverly and wittily written . . . . The book will work extremely well in the classroom."
-Film Quarterly

"From Back to the Future to Forrest Gump, Nadel shows not only how notions of cinematic time re-script political change but...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813524407
• ISBN13: 9780813524405
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"