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Nixon and the Silver Screen

Mark Feeney

出版	University of Chicago Press, 2012-12-20
主題	Performing Arts / GeneralPerforming Arts / Film / History & CriticismBiography & Autobiography / PoliticalHistory / United States / 20th Century
ISBN	022604923X9780226049236
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XngY8I-nZqYC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋

Richard Nixon and the film industry arrived in Southern California in the same year, 1913. In Nixon and the Silver Screen, Mark Feeney offers a new and often revelatory way of thinking about one of our most controversial presidents: by looking not just at Nixon's career—but Hollywood's. Nixon viewed more movies while in office than any other president, and Feeney argues that Nixon’s story, both in politics and in his personal life, is nothing if not quintessentially American. Bearing in mind the events that shaped his presidency from 1969 to 1974, Feeney sees aspects of Nixon’s character—and the nation’s—refracted and reimagined in the more than 500 films Nixon watched during his tenure in the White House. The verdict? Nixon’s legacy, for better or worse, is forever representative of the “Silver Age” in Hollywood, shaping and being shaped by that flickering silver screen.