Reelpolitik Ideologies in American Political Film

In Reelpolitik Ideologies in American Political Film, Beverly Merrill Kelley examines more than a century of political movie history, providing a thorough historical background for diametrically opposed political ideologies in order to facilitate debate and dialectical learning. Kelley explores 185 American political movies (categorized by ideological themes and presented in chronological order) in order to illustrate the history of film as well as the history of specific political ideologies. Each chapter includes a case study that provides an in-depth analysis of the single film that best illustrates the ideology at hand, including The Candidate (populism), Wall Street (elitism), The Godfather (fascism), All the President's Men (anti-fascism), Patton (interventionism), and M*A*S*H (isolationism).

Beverly Merrill Kelley is professor of communication and founder of the Communication Department at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California.