Make My Day

Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan

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<p><strong>Named a Best Book of the Year by <em>Financial Times</em></strong></p><p><strong>"Singular, stylish and slightly intoxicating in its scope."</strong><br><strong>-<em>Rolling Stone</em></strong></p><p><strong>Acclaimed media critic J. Hoberman's masterful and majestic exploration of the Reagan years as seen through the unforgettable movies of the era</strong></p><p>The third book in a brilliant and ambitious trilogy, celebrated cultural and film critic J. Hoberman's <em>Make My Day</em> 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 <em>Earthquake</em> ruled the box office to the nostalgia of feel-good movies like <em>Rocky</em> and <em>Star Wars</em>, and the delirium of the 1984 presidential campaign and beyond.</p><p>Bookended by the Bicentennial celebrations and the Iran-Contra affair, the period of Reagan's ascendance brought such movie events as <em>Jaws</em>, <em>Apocalypse Now</em>, <em>Blade Runner</em>, <em>Ghostbusters</em>, <em>Blue Velvet</em>, and <em>Back to the Future</em>, as well as the birth of MTV, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and the Second Cold War.</p><p>An exploration of the synergy between American politics and popular culture, <em>Make My Day</em> is the concluding volume of Hoberman's <em>Found Illusions</em> trilogy; the first volume, <em>The Dream Life</em>, was described by <em>Slate</em>'s David Edelstein as "one of the most vital cultural histories I've ever read"; <em>Film Comment</em> called the second, <em>An Army of Phantoms</em>, "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.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781595580061

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

236 x 156 x 35 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Verlag / Hersteller

New Press