Visions of Empire: Political Imagery in Contemporary American Film

by Stephen Prince

Book Overview

Visions of Empire explores film's function as a medium of political communication, recognizing not just the propaganda film, but the various ways that conventional narrative films embody, question, or critique established social values underlying American attitudes toward historical, social, and political events. Stephen Prince discusses Hollywood film productions of the 1980s in terms of salient political issues of the period, including...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275936627
• ISBN13: 9780275936624
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"