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EBOOK Hollywood Left and Right:How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199720484
EAN: BC7AF1BEEB
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Stron: 512
Data wydania: 2011
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How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics
Ever since the film industry relocated to Hollywood early in the twentieth        century, it has had an outsized influence on American politics. Through a series of        gripping chapters on larger-than-life figures in American cinema--Charlie Chaplin,        Louis Mayer, Edward G. Robinson, Harry Belafonte, Ronald Reagan, George Murphy, Jane        Fonda, Charlton Heston, Warren Beatty, and Arnold Schwarzenegger--Hollywood Left and        Right tells the compelling story of how Hollywood emerged as a vital center of        American politics. From Chaplin, whose movies almost always displayed his leftist        convictions, to Schwarznegger's nearly seamless transition from action blockbusters        to the California governor's mansion, Steve Ross traces the intersection of        Hollywood and political activism through the twentieth century and into the 21st.          Significantly, Hollywood Left and Right challenges the commonly held belief that        Hollywood is a bastion of liberalism. The real story, as Ross shows in this        passionate yet highly entertaining work, is a far more complicated one. The Left and        the Right each gained ascendancy in Tinseltown at different times, but while the        Hollywood Left was usually more vocal and visible, it was the Right that achieved        the most, capturing a Senate seat (Murphy), a governorship (Schwarzenegger),        and--ultimately--the Presidency (Reagan).

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