Fascism and Millennial American Cinema

• Main Author: Grist, Leighton (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: 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 studi...

Table of Contents:

• 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.