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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Hoberman, James (1949-....)
Titre(s) : Make my day [Texte imprimé] : movie culture in the age of Reagan / J. Hoberman
Publication : New York : The New Press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : xii, 396 pages ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
Acclaimed media critic J. Hoberman's masterful and majestic exploration of the Reagan
years as seen through the unforgettable movies of the era. The third book in a brilliant
and ambitious trilogy, celebrated cultural and film critic J. Hoberman's Make My Day
is a major new work of film and pop culture history. In it he chronicles the Reagan
years, from the waning days of the Watergate scandal when disaster films like Earthquake
ruled the box office to the nostalgia of feel-good movies like Rocky and Star Wars,
and the delirium of the 1984 presidential campaign and beyond. Bookended by the Bicentennial
celebrations and the Iran-Contra affair, the period of Reagan's ascendance brought
such movie events as Jaws, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Ghostbusters, Blue Velvet,
and Back to the Future, as well as the birth of MTV, the Strategic Defense Initiative,
and the Second Cold War. An exploration of the synergy between American politics and
popular culture, Make My Day is the concluding volume of Hoberman's Found Illusions
trilogy; the first volume, The Dream Life, was described by Slate's David Edelstein
as "one of the most vital cultural histories I've ever read"; Film Comment called
the second, An Army of Phantoms, "utterly compulsive reading." Reagan, a supporting
player in Hoberman's previous volumes, here takes center stage as the peer of Indiana
Jones and John Rambo, the embodiment of a Hollywood that, even then, no longer existed
Sujet(s) : Cinéma -- États-Unis -- 1960-1990
Cinéma -- Aspect politique -- États-Unis
Politique et gouvernement -- États-Unis -- 1981-1989
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.430 97309048 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - États-Unis - 1980-1989
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781595580061. - ISBN 1595580069. - ISBN 9781620971000 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46635113s
Notice n° :
FRBNF46635113
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: the department of amusement ; Nashville contra jaws, 1975 ; Born
again in the U.S.A., 1976-80 ; Bad trips, 1981-82 ; "I ain't afraid of no ghost!,"
1983-84 ; Forward into the past, 1985-86 ; Once upon a time in the eighties, 1987-88
; Epilogue: remake my day.
