Hollywood's New Radicalism: War, Globalisation and the Movies from Reagan to George W. Bush

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Cover ; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; General Editor's Introduction; Introduction; Part One: The Inheritance; The creation of modern Hollywood; The movement last time; 'Greed is good'; The liberal Hollywood response to Reagan; War -- studio spectacle and directorial detractors; Challenge of the creative community; Part Two: The Crisis of Hollywood Liberalism; The context for Clinton; Clinton, heroism and the liberal Hollywood tradition; Globalisation and the alternative media expose of Clinton; The president's Hollywood friends.;Described by Tony Garnett as 'an ambitious and refreshing book', Hollywood's New Radicalism is a timely and contentious account of the last twenty-five years of American cinema. Ben Dickenson tells the story of the corporate take-over of the movies in the 1970s, and the subsequent transformation of Hollywood into the dominant force in the global media industry. Writing from the intersection where politics, society and cinema meet, and using exclusive interviews with Hollywood personalities, he explores the radicalising effect of such changes on liberal filmmakers like Warren Beatty, Michael Mo. Cover Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements General Editor's Introduction Introduction Part One: The Inheritance The creation of modern Hollywood The movement last time 'Greed is good' The liberal Hollywood response to Reagan War -- studio spectacle and directorial detractors Challenge of the creative community Part Two: The Crisis of Hollywood Liberalism The context for Clinton Clinton, heroism and the liberal Hollywood tradition Globalisation and the alternative media expose of Clinton The president's Hollywood friends. Progressive Hollywood responds -- the new anti-corporate threadSteven Soderbergh and the brief independent boom Race and the independent movie Money can't buy you Bill Crisis of the progressive agenda Old heroes -- Warren Beatty New heroes -- re-inventing the liberal tradition The new liberal aesthetic -- the individual in society Part Three: The Next Generation 'Ooooo! We hate Bush and we hate Bush ... The new movement -- Seattle and 'Cradle Will Rock' Globalisation and George Bush Jr Local and global Anti-capitalism in the mainstream Progressive ideology and activism in Hollywood. The anti-capitalist aesthetic and its ambiguous brotherCopying the independent gun movie Trans-national Hollywood business Michael Moore's radical documentary phenomenon War, resistance, unity Individualist film and the collective spirit Hey! Arnie, the election Epilogue Notes Index.