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The Leading Man
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ISBN: 1283618036 9786613930484 0813554055 9780813554051 9781283618038 9780813554044 0813554047 6613930482 Year: 2012 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ

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American presidents and Hollywood have interacted since the 1920's. This relationship has made our entertainment more political and our political leadership more aligned with the world of movies and movie stars. In The Leading Man, Burton W. Peretti explores the development of the cinematic presidential image. He sets the scene in chapter 1 to show us how the chief executive, beginning with George Washington, was positioned to assume the mantle of cultural leading man. As an early star figure in the young republic, the president served as a symbol of national survival and wish fulfillment. The president, as head of government and head of state, had the potential to portray a powerful and charismatic role. At the center of the story are the fourteen presidents of the cinematic era, from Herbert Hoover to Barack Obama. Since the 1920's, the president, like the lead actor in a movie, has been given the central place on the political stage under the intense glare of the spotlight. Like other American men, future presidents were taught by lead movie actors how to look and behave, what to say, and how to say it. Some, like John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon, took particular care to learn from the grooming, gestures, movements, and vocal inflections of film actors and applied these lessons to their political careers. Ronald Reagan was a professional actor. Bill Clinton, a child of the post-World War II Baby Boom, may have been the biggest movie fan of all presidents. Others, including Lyndon Johnson, showed little interest in movies and their lessons for politicians. Presidents and other politicians have been criticized for cheapening their offices by hiring image and advertising consultants and staging their public events. Peretti analyzes the evolution and the significance of this interaction to trace the convoluted history of the presidential cinematic image. He demonstrates how movies have been the main force in promoting appearance and drama over the substance of governing, and how Americans' lives today may be dominated by entertainment at the expense of their engagement as citizens.


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Hollywood and the American historical film
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ISBN: 9780230230927 9780230230934 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Palgrave Macmillan

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"This definitive interdisciplinary collection by leading scholars probes the theoretical and historical contexts of films made about the American past from silent film to the present. The book offers a fresh assessment of studio era historical filmmaking and its legacy across a range of genres"--

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Film --- United States --- Autant en emporte le vent (Film) --- Certains l'aiment chaud (Film) --- Cinéma et histoire --- Film en geschiedenis --- Gejaagd door de wind (Film) --- Gone with the Wind (Film) --- Gone with the Wind (Motion picture) --- Histoire au cinéma --- Histoire et cinéma --- Julia (Film) --- Julia (Motion picture) --- L'Homme qui tua Liberty Valance (Film) --- Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (Film) --- Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (Motion picture) --- Motion pictures and history --- PT 109 (Film) --- PT 109 (Motion picture) --- Some Like It Hot (Film) --- Some Like It Hot (Motion picture) --- Some Like It hot (Film) --- Streetcar Named Desire, A (Film) --- Streetcar Named Desire, A (Motion picture) --- Un tramway nommé Désir (Film) --- Films historiques --- Historical films --- Motion pictures and history. --- Histoire et critique --- History and criticism. --- #SBIB:309H1326 --- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century --- PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism --- PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General --- History and motion pictures --- Moving-pictures and history --- History --- Films met een amusementsfunctie en/of esthetische functie: genres en richtingen --- Performing arts --- 20th Century --- Film & Video --- History & Criticism --- General --- 20th Century. --- History & Criticism. --- General. --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- Griffith, David Wark --- Sirk, Douglas --- Cinéma et histoire. --- Histoire et critique. --- Cinéma et histoire. --- United States of America

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