Winning the Crowd - The Politics of Popular Films

How is Hollywood shaping the American public's thought about politics? Winning The Crowd: The Politics of Popular Films analyses the philosophies of power and the good life found in some of the smartest popular films of recent years.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Color Revolution: Pleasantville, the New Left, and the Making of a New American Identity
Chapter 2 Aristotelian Virtue on Death Row: Masculinity and Courage in The Green Mile
Chapter 3 Gladiator and the Dream of Rome
Chapter 4 Ship as State: The Political Teaching of Master and Commander
Chapter 5 The Incredibles and Tocqueville: Preserving Human Excellence in Democratic Times
Chapter 6 Nature and Nationhood in Gran Torino
Chapter 7 The Political Philosophy of the Dark Knight Trilogy
Chapter 8 For Agatha: Memory, Art, and Civil Society in Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel
Chapter 9 For Queen and Country: The Burkean Conservatism of (Daniel Craig era) James Bond
Chapter 10 John Wick in Purgatorio

About the author

Edited by Jonathan Ashbach - Contributions by Joey M. Barretta; Sean Beienburg; Luigi Bradizza; Adam Carrington; Catherine Craig; Jerome C. Foss; Richard Jordan; Aaron Kushner and Casey J. Wheatland

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Ashbach
• Assisted by: Jonathan Ashbach (Editor), Jonathan Ashbach (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2025
• EAN: 9781666955279
• ISBN: 978-1-66695-527-9
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Media Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Society & culture: general, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy, Films, cinema, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Society and culture: general, Central / national / federal government policies, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Political structure and processes, Central government policies