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God, Man, and Hollywood
Mark Royden Winchell
其他書名
Politically Incorrect Cinema from "The Birth of a Nation" to "The Passion of the Christ"
出版
ISI Books
, 2008
主題
Performing Arts / Film / General
Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism
Political Science / General
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
Social Science / Popular Culture
ISBN
1933859563
9781933859569
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ZLsbAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
It takes no great powers of observation to see that Hollywood has long been far to the left of the general American public. Even in stories that have no overt political content, the social and moral assumptions in films rated from GP to R are often at odds with the deeply held values of most of the viewing audience. But that's not the whole story, argues the literary and cultural critic Mark Royden Winchell in
God, Man, and Hollywood
. A surprising number of films articulate culturally unfashionable attitudes--and it is from these movies that we learn the most about our society and ourselves.
Beginning with D. W. Griffith's
The Birth of a Nation
and ending with Mel Gibson's
The Passion of the Christ
, Winchell reveals the politically incorrect notions at the heart of eighteen classic films, including
Ben-Hur, Intruder in the Dust, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Patton, The Deer Hunter, A Clockwork Orange, Gangs of New York
, and
Gettsyburg
. Along the way, he shows how a number of filmmakers, sometimes unwittingly, have produced unconventionally honest explorations of the nature and meaning of race relations, love, family, community, worship, and other aspects of our shared human experience. Winchell ends with synoptic assessments of an additional one hundred politically incorrect films, from
About Schmidt
to
Zulu
. The result is an indispensable film guide showing that sometimes even Hollywood has done better than we typically give it credit for.