American film and politics from Reagan to Bush Jr

Introduction - Philip John Davies & Paul Wells 1. American cinema, political criticism and pragmatism: A therapeutic reading of Fight Club and Magnolia - Paul Watson 2. 'Ask not what America can do for you...': Views from the White House: Hollywood in elections and elections in Hollywood - Philip John Davies 3. Oliver Stone's presidential films - Albert Auster 4. '...in order to form a more perfect union': some manifest destinies: Gender and family values in the Clinton presidency and 1990s Hollywood film - Carol R. Smith 5. '...and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea': crossing boundaries: New York City in American film - Leonard Quart 6. Dixie's land: Cinema of the American South - Ralph Willett 7. '...into the crucible with you all, God is making the American...': melting pots and pans: Independent Cinema and modern Hollywood: pluralism in American cultural politics - Brian Neve 8. 'I wanna be like you-oo-oo': Disnified politics and identity from 'The Little Mermaid' to' Mulan' - Paul Wells 9. 'Oh! Say, does the star-spangled banner yet wave, o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?' : contemporary conflict and contradiction: Ambiguity and Anger : Representations of African Americans in contemporary Hollywood film - Mary Ellison 10. The Adversarial Imagination - Phil Melling