Chapter 1. Confronting the Horrors of the Bush-Cheney Era: From Documentary to Allegory

  1. Douglas Kellner

Published Online: 15 JAN 2010

DOI: 10.1002/9781444314809.ch1

Book Title

Cinema Wars: Hollywood Film and Politics in the Bush-Cheney Era

Cinema Wars: Hollywood Film and Politics in the Bush-Cheney Era

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Kellner, D. (2010) Confronting the Horrors of the Bush-Cheney Era: From Documentary to Allegory, in Cinema Wars: Hollywood Film and Politics in the Bush-Cheney Era, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444314809.ch1

Publication History

  1. Published Online: 15 JAN 2010
  2. Published Print: 1 DEC 2009

ISBN Information

Print ISBN: 9781405198233

Online ISBN: 9781444314809

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Keywords:

  • confronting the horrors of the Bush-Cheney Era;
  • administrations of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney - most rightwing, extremist, ultraconservative;
  • Golden Age of Documentary;
  • key events of Bush-Cheney years and struggles over policies - visible in US cinematic visions;
  • Grand Theft 2000;
  • Unprecedented - unfolding variety of dirty deeds, and Al Gore losing votes in Florida election;
  • California Air Resources Board (CARB);
  • Republican Rule and Crises of Democracy;
  • real disaster films - environmental documentaries to animated allegories

Summary

This chapter contains sections titled:

  • The Golden Age of Documentary

  • Real Disaster Films: From An Inconvenient Truth and Environmental Documentaries to Animated Allegories

  • Allegories of Catastrophe: Social Apocalypse in Disaster, Horror, and Fantasy Films

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