Chapter 1 1 Introduction: A Tale of Two Cities, Parameters, the Language of Politics Chapter 2 2 Populism in The Last Hurrah Chapter 3 3 Elitism in Advise and Consent Chapter 4 4 Fascism in A Face in the Crowd Chapter 5 5 Antifascism in Seven Days in May Chapter 6 6 Interventionism in The Green Berets Chapter 7 7 Isolationism in The Steel Helmet Chapter 8 8 Cold War Hawkism in The Manchurian Candidate Chapter 9 9 Cold War Dovism in Dr. Strangelove; or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb Chapter 10 10 Conclusion: Myth, Megaphone, Metaphor, Mirror, Microscope, and Magic Carpet Chapter 11 Ideological Filmolgoy Chapter 12 Selected Bibliography
Beverly Merrill Kelley is full professor and founder of the communication department at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California.
"It is rare indeed to find a film text that is prepared to analyze American foreign policy, presidential politics, cultural theory, and social history with such a wide-ranging and lucid grasp of the material. Erudite, accessible, and often witty," - Ian Scott, University of Manchester, England, author of American Politics in Hollywood Film"
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