Here's Looking at You: Hollywood, Film, and Politics (Politics, Media, and Popular Culture, Vol. 3)
Editorial Reviews
John W. Williams, Political Science, Principia College, Elsah, Illinois
"I used six chapters of Giglio's book for my Politics and Film class. The students loved the text. They found it readable and, perhaps the highest accolade, read the material... Two of the most useful elements of the text are its structure and its relevance. The material is structured to lead students through Giglio's points, which are backed with lots of examples. The students, ignorant of our cultural history, were frequently confronted with films or shots that were unfamiliar. Instead of rejecting the material as irrelevant to their experience, they... asked questions of me, sought out supplementary material, and insisted on seeing films that I had not planned to screen.
The material is relevant. The examples illustrate Giglio's points. The examples from recent decades related to student interests, while older examples drew the students deeper into the subject. As a result, I found the text useful for both political science students with no exposure to film and film students with no exposure to politics... The text was one of the pedagogical highlights of the course. I look forward to using it the next time I teach Politics and Film."
Book Description
Here's Looking at You examines the relationship between Hollywood films and the world of real politics, from the silent era to the dawn of the new millennium. What is discovered contradicts the film industry's patented response that the only messages its films deliver are messages intended for entertainment. While the vast majority of commercial features are designed to attract a mass audience, Hollywood has produced several hundred films that contain political messages. These range from D. W. Griffith's silent classic, The Birth of a Nation, to recent entries like Wag the Dog, Primary Colors, and Bulworth.
Here's Looking at You: Hollywood, Film, and Politics (Politics, Media, and Popular Culture, Vol. 3),Ernest Giglio,Peter Lang Publishing,0820444219,Cinema/Film: Book,Film & Video - General,General,Motion pictures,Performing Arts,Political aspects,Politics in motion pictures,Pop Arts / Pop Culture
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