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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Freedman, Carl Howard (1951-....)
Titre(s) : American presidents and Oliver Stone [Texte imprimé] : Kennedy, Nixon, and Bush between history and cinema / Carl Freedman
Publication : Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : Intellect Books, 2020.
Description matérielle : 238 pages ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-215) and index
Perhaps no current filmmaker has made more provocative films about American history
than Oliver Stone. In this book, Carl Freedman gives a detailed and nuanced account
of the presidencies of John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and George W. Bush as fictionalized
in Stone's biographical films JFK, Nixon, and W. Synthesizing film criticism with
political and historical analysis, American Presidents and Oliver Stone transcends
the limitations of formalism and empiricism, reflecting on both Stone's achievements
as a filmmaker and American politics of the past sixty years. Offering detailed historical
perspectives alongside careful aesthetic criticism, Freedman explores how Stone uses
melodrama, tragedy, and farce to transform politics into national mythology. Wide-ranging,
accessible, and highly original, American Presidents is sure to engage anyone interested
in the intersection of American politics and cinema
Sujet(s) : Stone, Oliver (1946-....) -- Critique et interprétation
J.F.K. (film)
Nixon (film)
Présidents -- États-Unis -- Au cinéma
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.430 92 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781789382624. - ISBN 1789382629. - ISBN 9781789382648 (erroné). - ISBN 9781789382631
(erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46729759p
Notice n° :
FRBNF46729759
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : I.. Kennedy: Icon -- ; To Assassinate a Movie -- ; JFK: American Melbourne -- ; Precursor-Texts:
Rashomon and Citizen Kane -- ; JFK: Conspiracy -- ; JFK: Father-Leader -- ; JFK: Son-Avenger
-- ; II.. Nixon: Tragic Hero-Villain -- ; From Kennedy to Nixon -- ; From Melodrama
to Tragedy -- ; From JFK to Nixon -- ; Nixon: Personal Tragedy -- ; Nixon: National
Tragedy -- ; Nixon: American Tragedy -- ; Conclusion -- ; III.. Bush: (Un)Fortunate
Son -- ; From Tragedy to Farce -- ; W.: The Man -- ; W.: The War.
