Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy

by Matthew Alford

Book Overview

Hollywood is often characterised as a stronghold of left-liberal ideals. In Reel Power, Matthew Alford shows that it is in fact deeply complicit in serving the interests of the most regressive US corporate and political forces. Films like Transformers, Terminator: Salvation and Black Hawk Down are constructed with Defence Department assistance as explicit cheerleaders for the US military, but Matthew Alford also emphasises how so-called 'radical'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745329829
• ISBN13: 9780745329826
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.4"