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...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...

...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...

... 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...

...Bruce Baum © 2011 Caucus for a New Political Science 2011 New Political Science, Volume 33, Number 4, December 2011 Film Review Essay Hollywood's Crisis of Capitalism 2011: Inside Job, The Company Men, and the Myth of a Good Capitalism There is a revealing moment near the end of Inside Job...

... 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...

... ironically undercuts the challenge of sustaining a successful Black commercial vision that can still contain interesting ideas about Black life. This essay explores the differences between framing Black Panther as an example of independent Third Cinema vs. commercial Hollywood cinema and argues...

... by celebrity activists span the political spectrum, and seem to broaden every day. This phenomenon of celebrity politics has come about with seemingly curious speed. In the span of a generation, wealthy Hollywood entertainers have emerged as among the most effective political activists in the United States...

..., "Pearl Harbor: How Film Conquers History," New Political Science 28:4 (2006), pp. 451-466; Carl Boggs and Tom Pollard, "Hollywood and the Spectacle of Terrorism," New Political Science 28:3 (2006), pp. 335-351; Carl Boggs and Tom Pollard, "The Imperial Warrior in Hollywood: Rambo and Beyond," New...

... enter the homes of celebrities to steal clothing, jewelry, and other personal belongings in order to emulate the glamorous lives seen in representations of Hollywood culture, Coppolla's film is a poignant satire of the intersections of youth culture and celebrity worship. It is also a film whose plot...

... and Gender in Hollywood, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998, 262 pp. Sigourney Weaver's warrior becomes a complete woman as a surrogate mother in Aliens. Susan Sarandon's lawyer is rescued by the II-year old boy that she is defending in The Client. Diana Muldaur's brusque lawyer plunges to her...

... and political exclusionary dynamics? This is particularly true in the context of Argentine national cinema, an important site where nation is discursively produced and reproduced. Indeed, national cinemas often adhere to aspects of the classical Hollywood format, including reducing women to icons. They also...

...Bruce Baum New Political Science, Volume 31, Number 2, June 2009 FILM REVIEW The Dark Knight (Warner Brothers Pictures, 2008) Hollywood movies often reflect their historical moments in intriguing ways. The latest Batman movie, The Dark Knight (2008), directed by Christopher Nolan, is a striking...

... on social theory, politics, history, and culture, including Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology ofCon temporary Hollywood Film, co-authored with Michael Ryan; Critical Theory, Marxism, and Modernity; Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond; works in cultural studies such as Media...

... as it comes to us through the medium of popular film. What does Hollywood tell us about bad policing, and how might that inhibit our ability as citizens (and as cops) to respond to actual police corruption? Towards a Theory of the Institutional Nature of Police Scandals Police corruption scandals are common.6...

...: "postmodern cinema." The classic American films that were products of the Hollywood "studio system" incorporated modern liberal ideas based on Enlightenment political theory and American values that expressed consistent optimism including the promise of democracy, progress, social mobility, rationality...

... (Director), Black Panther [Motion Picture]. USA, Marvel Studios, 2018 Black Panther has been a critical and financial success and a defining moment for black storytelling in Hollywood. This is the first superhero movie with a predominantly black creative team and cast.' Like Langston Hughes describes in "I...

... with pictures of 1930s-vintage Hollywood film stars with marcelled blond hair and a portrait of an Anglo-Saxon Jesus. The disruption in the Japanese American immigrant household caused by the sexual tension between her mother Hatsu (Natsuko Ohama) and Marpo is ultimately signaled by a static shot of the toppled...

... (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002), Imperial Delusions: American Militarism and Endless War (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), and The Hollywood War Machine, with Tom Pollard (Paradigm, 2007). His latest book, The Criltzes of Empire: The History and Politics of u.s. Outlawry, is being published by Pluto Press...

... way toward happiness and high school, though probably not the celebrity she yearns for in the film's dream sequences. The story is typical Hollywood fare, in its way, even if the setting is not. But precisely because the central characters are black welfare recipients, it is not typical fare. American...

..., Hollywood scripts and intense media coverage all could ignore, overlook and distort this aspect of the resistance movement in of Mississippi is itself worthy of study. No doubt such an analysis would reveal a 0739-3148/99/020125-06 © 1999 Caucus for a New Political Science 126 George Katsiaficas great deal...