Fascism and Millennial American Cinema

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Grist, Leighton (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Motion pictures-United States.; Cultural policy.; United States-Study and teaching.; American Cinema and TV.; Cultural Policy and Politics.; American Culture.

 This book examines a spate of American films released around the turn of the millennium that differently address the actuality or possibility of domestic fascism within the USA. The films discussed span a diversity of forms, genres and production practices, and encompass low- and medium-budget studio and independent releases (such as American History X, Stir of Echoes and The Believer), star and/or auteur vehicles (such as The Siege, Fight Club and American Beauty), and high-budget, high-concept science-fiction films and franchises (such as Starship Troopers, Minority Report, the Matrix and X-Men trilogies and the Star Wars prequels). Central to the book is the detailed analysis of the films, which is contextualized historically in relation to a period that saw the significant rise of the far Right. The book concordantly affords a wider insight into fascism and its various manifestations and how such have been, and continue to be, registered within American cinema. . 

 1. Introduction: Fascism, and American Cinema -- 2. Skinheads, Racism, (Neo-)Nazism and the Family -- 3. Patriots and Militias, Fascism and the State -- 4. A (Fascist) New World Order/A (Fascistically Contested) New World Order -- 5. The Übermensch, its Avatars and the Ordinary -- 6. Conclusion: The World Turns.