Hollywood On Ronald Reagan
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Author |
: Stephen Vaughn |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 406 |
Release |
: 1994-01-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521440807 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521440806 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ronald Reagan in Hollywood by : Stephen Vaughn
Explores the relationship between the motion picture industry and American politics.
Author |
: Doug McClelland |
Publisher |
: Winchester, MA : Faber and Faber |
Total Pages |
: 247 |
Release |
: 1983-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0571125220 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780571125227 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hollywood on Ronald Reagan by : Doug McClelland
Author |
: J. Hoberman |
Publisher |
: The New Press |
Total Pages |
: 382 |
Release |
: 2019-07-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781620971000 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1620971003 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Make My Day by : J. Hoberman
Named a Best Book of the Year by Financial Times "Singular, stylish and slightly intoxicating in its scope." —Rolling Stone Acclaimed media critic J. Hoberman's masterful and majestic exploration of the Reagan years as seen through the unforgettable movies of the era The third book in a brilliant and ambitious trilogy, celebrated cultural and film critic J. Hoberman's Make My Day is a major new work of film and pop culture history. In it he chronicles the Reagan years, from the waning days of the Watergate scandal when disaster films like Earthquake ruled the box office to the nostalgia of feel-good movies like Rocky and Star Wars, and the delirium of the 1984 presidential campaign and beyond. Bookended by the Bicentennial celebrations and the Iran-Contra affair, the period of Reagan's ascendance brought such movie events as Jaws, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Ghostbusters, Blue Velvet, and Back to the Future, as well as the birth of MTV, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and the Second Cold War. An exploration of the synergy between American politics and popular culture, Make My Day is the concluding volume of Hoberman's Found Illusions trilogy; the first volume, The Dream Life, was described by Slate's David Edelstein as "one of the most vital cultural histories I've ever read"; Film Comment called the second, An Army of Phantoms, "utterly compulsive reading." Reagan, a supporting player in Hoberman's previous volumes, here takes center stage as the peer of Indiana Jones and John Rambo, the embodiment of a Hollywood that, even then, no longer existed.
Author |
: Susan Jeffords |
Publisher |
: Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813520037 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813520032 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hard Bodies by : Susan Jeffords
Hard Bodies looks at some of the most popular films of the Reagan era and examines how the characters, themes, and stories presented in them often helped to reinforce and disseminate the policies, programs, and beliefs of the 'Reagan Revolution.'
Author |
: Marc Eliot |
Publisher |
: Crown |
Total Pages |
: 402 |
Release |
: 2009-09-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307405135 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307405133 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reagan by : Marc Eliot
The compelling biography of an American icon’s early years–as an aspiring actor, Hollywood star, and family man. Ronald Reagan was one of the most powerful and popular American presidents. The key to understanding his political success and the remarkable likability and effortless charisma that made it possible lies embedded in his early years as a Hollywood movie star. Using never-before-published interviews, documents, and other materials, acclaimed writer and biographer Marc Eliot sheds new light on Reagan’s film and television work opposite some of the most talented women of the time; his starlet-strewn bachelor days; his tumultuous first marriage to Jane Wyman and his career-making second marriage to Nancy Davis; his controversial eight years as the president of the Screen Actors Guild; his place in the “Irish Mafia” alongside Pat O’Brien, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, and Errol Flynn; and his friendships with Jimmy Stewart and William Holden, as well as with super-agent Lew Wasserman, who was instrumental in developing the persona that would prove essential to Reagan’s future as a world leader. Set against the glamorous and often combative background of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Eliot’s biography provides a nuanced examination of the man and uncovers the startling origins of the legend. “A fresh look . . . [at] the genesis of Reagan’s later public persona.” —New York Times “Film critic and historian Marc Eliot has dug up even more about young sportscaster ‘Dutch’ Reagan, his journey west to Hollywood, his B-movie career . . . his relationship with super-agent Lew Wasserman, and his rocky marriage to his first wife, actresss Jane Wyman.” —USA Today
Author |
: Mark Weinberg |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2018-02-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501134012 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501134019 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Movie Nights with the Reagans by : Mark Weinberg
The former special advisor and press secretary to President Ronald Reagan shares a “sentimental but often revealing…enjoyable walk down Memory Lane” (Kirkus Reviews)—told through the movies he watched with the Reagans every week at Camp David. Over the course of eight years, Mark Weinberg travelled to Camp David with Ronald and Nancy Reagan as they screened movies on Friday and Saturday nights. They watched movies in times of triumph, such as the aftermath of Reagan’s 1984 landslide, and after moments of tragedy, such as the explosion of the Challenger and the shooting of the President and Press Secretary Jim Brady. Weinberg’s unparalleled access offers a rare glimpse of the Reagans—unscripted, relaxed, unburdened by the world, with no cameras in sight. Each chapter discusses a legendary film, what the Reagans thought of it, and provides warm anecdotes and untold stories about his family and the administration. From Reagan’s pranks on the Secret Service to his thoughts on the parallels between Hollywood and Washington, Weinberg paints a full picture of the president The New Yorker once famously dubbed “The Unknowable.” A “meander through a simpler time capturing a different time and a different president” (USA TODAY), Movie Nights with the Reagans is a nostalgic journey through the 1980s and its most iconic films, seen through the eyes of one of Hollywood’s former stars: one who was simultaneously transforming the Republican Party, the American economy, and the course of the Cold War. “For those equally enthused about movies and the fortieth president, this book will serve as a welcome change from today’s political climate” (Publishers Weekly).
Author |
: Michael Rogin |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 419 |
Release |
: 1988-07-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520064690 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520064690 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ronald Reagan The Movie by : Michael Rogin
"Fresh, provocative, and full of vitality, this is a first-rate contribution to the study of political culture. It should be read not only by political scientists, political theorists, and sociologists, but also by students of American studies and literature."—Sheldon Wolin, Princeton University
Author |
: Tony Thomas |
Publisher |
: Citadel Press |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 1986-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0806507969 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780806507965 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Films of Ronald Reagan by : Tony Thomas
Author |
: Chris Jordan |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2003-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780313057489 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0313057486 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Movies and the Reagan Presidency by : Chris Jordan
The 1980s were unique in both American history and the history of American cinema. It was a time when a United States president—a former B-movie actor and Cold War industry activist—served as a catalyst for the coalescence of trends in Hollywood's political structure, mode of production, and film content. Ronald Reagan championed a success ethos that recognized economic and moral self-governance as the basis of a democratic society. His agenda of tax reform and industry deregulation simultaneously promoted the absorption of Hollywood's major studios into tightly diversified media conglomerates, and concentrations of ownership promoted the production and release of movies with maximum revenue potential. Indeed, the most commercially successful movies of the decade put forth the ideologies of WASP America, nuclear family self-sufficiency, and conspicuous consumption. Three genres in particular—the biracial buddy movie, the MTV music-video movie, and the yuppie movie—provide case studies of how Reagan-era cinema addressed issues of race, gender, and class in ways very much in tune with Reaganomics and the President's cultural policies. Author Chris Jordan provides a complete overview of both the influence of Reagan's presidency on the film industry and on the films themselves. Exploring 80s genres and movies with both a sociocultural and aesthetic eye, this book will be invaluable to historians, cinema scholars, and film buffs.
Author |
: Steven J. Ross |
Publisher |
: OUP USA |
Total Pages |
: 513 |
Release |
: 2011-09-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195181722 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195181727 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hollywood Left and Right by : Steven J. Ross
In Hollywood Left and Right, Steven J. Ross tells a story that has escaped public attention: the emergence of Hollywood as a vital center of political life and the important role that movie stars have played in shaping the course of American politics.Ever since the film industry relocated to Hollywood early in the twentieth century, it has had an outsized influence on American politics. Through compelling larger-than-life figures in American cinema--Charlie Chaplin, Louis B. Mayer, Edward G. Robinson, George Murphy, Ronald Reagan, Harry Belafonte, Jane Fonda, Charlton Heston, Warren Beatty, and Arnold Schwarzenegger--Hollywood Left and Right reveals how the film industry's engagement in politics has been longer, deeper, and more varied than most people would imagine. As shown in alternating chapters, the Left and the Right each gained ascendancy in Tinseltown at different times. From Chaplin, whose movies almost always displayed his leftist convictions, to Schwarzenegger's nearly seamless transition from action blockbusters to the California governor's mansion, Steven J. Ross traces the intersection of Hollywood and political activism from the early twentieth century to the present.Hollywood Left and Right challenges the commonly held belief that Hollywood has always been a bastion of liberalism. The real story, as Ross shows in this passionate and entertaining work, is far more complicated. First, Hollywood has a longer history of conservatism than liberalism. Second, and most surprising, while the Hollywood Left was usually more vocal and visible, the Right had a greater impact on American political life, capturing a senate seat (Murphy), a governorship (Schwarzenegger), and the ultimate achievement, the Presidency (Reagan).