Fascism and Millennial American Cinema (eBook)

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2018 | 1st ed. 2018
IX, 242 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-59566-9 (ISBN)

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Fascism and Millennial American Cinema - Leighton Grist
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This book examines a spate of American films released around the turn of the millennium that differently address the actuality or possibility of domestic fascism within the USA. The films discussed span a diversity of forms, genres and production practices, and encompass low- and medium-budget studio and independent releases (such as American History X, Stir of Echoes and The Believer), star and/or auteur vehicles (such as The Siege, Fight Club and American Beauty), and high-budget, high-concept science-fiction films and franchises (such as Starship Troopers, Minority Report, the Matrix and X-Men trilogies and the Star Wars prequels). Central to the book is the detailed analysis of the films, which is contextualized historically in relation to a period that saw the significant rise of the far Right. The book concordantly affords a wider insight into fascism and its various manifestations and how such have been, and continue to be, registered within American cinema. 



Leighton Grist is Reader in Media and Film Studies at the University of Winchester, UK. He has published extensively on film, including work on classical and post-classical Hollywood cinema, film theory and genre. He is the author of The Films of Martin Scorsese, 1963-77: Authorship and Context (2000) and The Films of Martin Scorsese, 1978-99: Authorship and Context II (2013).


This book examines a spate of American films released around the turn of the millennium that differently address the actuality or possibility of domestic fascism within the USA. The films discussed span a diversity of forms, genres and production practices, and encompass low- and medium-budget studio and independent releases (such as American History X, Stir of Echoes and The Believer), star and/or auteur vehicles (such as The Siege, Fight Club and American Beauty), and high-budget, high-concept science-fiction films and franchises (such as Starship Troopers, Minority Report, the Matrix and X-Men trilogies and the Star Wars prequels). Central to the book is the detailed analysis of the films, which is contextualized historically in relation to a period that saw the significant rise of the far Right. The book concordantly affords a wider insight into fascism and its various manifestations and how such have been, and continue to be, registered within American cinema. 

Leighton Grist is Reader in Media and Film Studies at the University of Winchester, UK. He has published extensively on film, including work on classical and post-classical Hollywood cinema, film theory and genre. He is the author of The Films of Martin Scorsese, 1963-77: Authorship and Context (2000) and The Films of Martin Scorsese, 1978-99: Authorship and Context II (2013).

1. Introduction: Fascism, and American Cinema.2. Skinheads, Racism, (Neo-)Nazism and the Family.3. Patriots and Militias, Fascism and the State.4. A (Fascist) New World Order/A (Fascistically Contested) New World Order.5. The Übermensch, its Avatars and the Ordinary.6. Conclusion: The World Turns.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.5.2018
Zusatzinfo IX, 242 p.
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Schlagworte America • American Cinema • Cinema • Cold War • Fascism • Nazi • Socialism
ISBN-10 1-137-59566-3 / 1137595663
ISBN-13 978-1-137-59566-9 / 9781137595669
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