The Disguised Political Film in Contemporary Hollywood: A Genre's Construction

by Betty Kaklamanidou

With strict guidelines on methodology and time frame -- films produced after September 2001, and a socio-semiotic theoretical framework -- Betty Kaklamanidou unpacks the problematic terms and ideas that go along with defining a new genre. Kaklamanidou considers a different sub-genre per chapter, placing each group of films in their socio-historical context to reach conclusions about the production of political films in millennial Hollywood. In...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501322303
• ISBN13: 9781501322303
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.2"