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... between law and violence. I also situate the discussion in terms of theories of “new institutionalism.” The article uses details of the LAPD Rampart scandal as an illustration. Finally, I argue that portrayals of corruption, brutality and scandal in film tend to reinforce the institutionalization...

..., Resistance and Revolution Sachs, Karen: "Engels Revisited" in Towards an Anthropology of Women (ed. by Rayna Reiter) Film Notes Carol Brown For attempting to deal with sexuality and capitalism in introductory college courses: 1. The Dick and Jane Slide Show (New Jersey Women on Words and Images), when...

... © 1979 Caucus for a New Political Science 1979 ORGANIZING NEWS 75 Coalition to send a speaker, but would still like to do support work, it can arrange to have the ABC film sent to them rent free from the Coalition. * Youngstown could also be useful for those involved in community power...

... and narratives of violence. The trends we identified in our book, The Hollywood War Machine, have only deepened and show no signs of receding. The most successful and widely-viewed films of 2007–2008, including several Oscar candidates, embrace dark images of savage, often relentless violence, graphic depictions...

...Fred Lee; Steven Manicastri Abstract This article interprets Joon-ho Bong’s Snowpiercer (2013) as a political allegory. First, we compare Bong’s film to Danny Boyle’s Sunshine (2007) and Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014), two contemporaneous films about ecological crises. We argue...

...Michael Laurence Abstract The release of Martin Scorsese’s film The Wolf of Wall Street in late 2013 helped to reignite a public conversation about corporate greed and the moral excesses and violations of Wall Street firms and executives. A barrage of articles, reviews, and criticisms of the film...

...Tom Pollard Abstract What we call the “Hollywood War Machine” analyzes the production of films within the studio system depicting the glories of US military action within theaters from around the world, spanning the Revolutionary War period to the present. A large majority of films under discussion...

...Gerard Huiskamp Abstract This essay provides a framework for understanding the implications of the Bush administration’s War on Terror, through an analysis of Stephen Spielberg’s 2002 futuristic film, Minority Report. In brief, the film explores the trade-offs between security and freedom, overlaid...

... and “disappeared” them as subjects from the public sphere, reproducing preexisting gender hierarchies. Adopting an interdisciplinary Discourse Historical Approach perspective, this manuscript examines one site of production of national identity, national cinema, through the comparative analysis of two films...

... violence as the United States shifted to a postindustrial economy. From the Hollywood box office to the California governor’s office, Schwarzenegger’s Terminator is the quintessential neoliberal Frankenstein, the labor-killing machine. The major thread running through both the films and Schwarzenegger’s...

...Renée T. White Abstract This symposium is an active engagement with the edited volume, Afrofuturism in Black Panther: Gender, Identity, and the Remaking of Blackness , a text that provides an interdisciplinary examination of the 2018 film Black Panther . The symposium introduction provides...

...Rebecca Wanzo Abstract Many people argued that Black Panther was a revolutionary film, a claim that somewhat obscures that it was success under capitalism that made Black Panther seem more radical in content than it actually was. Placing director Ryan Coogler within the ranks of radical filmmaking...

...Jane Anna Gordon Abstract This short piece engages contributions to Renee T. White and Karen A. Ritzenhoff’s Afrofuturism in Black Panther (2021) to argue that the film outlines some ingredients needed to cultivate universal first-class citizenship. The inclusion of council-structured political...

...Darrell Y. Hamamoto Abstract A history of exclusionism, segregation, and even incarceration are material forces that have shaped the sexuality of Asian Americans. Drawing from a range of feminist theory, film studies, and current scholarship in Asian American studies, this essay examines the role...

... to underscore the immobility of the less privileged “stuck” in whatever place they find themselves. Both sets of circumstances, however, exacerbate the general sense of dislocation disrupting affective values such as stability, bonding, and belonging. “Border crosser” films made by Hong Kong directors...

...Stephen Pimpare Ne'lv Political Science, Volume 32, Number 3, September 2010 Film Review The Welfare Queen and the Great White Hope Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009) (Lee Daniels, director) The Blind Side (2009), (John Lee Hancock, director) With domestic box-office receipts...

...Adam Hoffman Charlie vs. Goliath , by Phillip Landrum , Reed Lindsay , Ronica V. Reddick , Nicholas Rossier , and Anthony Weldon (Producers) , and Reed Lindsay (Director) , USA , Baraka Productions , 2017 , Belly of the Beast Films © 2019 Adam Hoffman 2019 NEW...

...Adrienne D. Davis © 2010 Caucus for a New Political Science 2010 Nezu Political Science, Volume 32, Number 1, March 2010 Film Review Gran Torino and Star Trek Race has long been a central object of political reflection. The salience of racial difference remains hotly debated, figuring in both...

... or cool may be so pervasive that hipness has lost whatever counter-cultural bite it once had. Yet a couple of significant recent US films, the independent feature film "Humpday," written and directed by Lynn Shelton (Magnolia Pictures, 2009), and the documentary film "Soul Power," directed by Jeffrey Levy...

...Bruce Baum © 2010 Caucus for a New Political Science 2010 New Political Science, Volume 32, Number 4, December 2010 Film Review Hollywood on Race in the Age of Obama: Invictus, Precious, and Avatar Three popular US movies released at the end of 2009, Invictus, Precious, and Avatar, work...