By I. Morgan
Cinematic depictions of genuine U.S. presidents from Abraham Lincoln to George W. Bush discover how Hollywood video clips characterize American background and politics on display. Morgan and his participants exhibit how movies mix fable and truth to provide a favorable message approximately presidents because the epitome of America's values and idealism till unpopular international wars in Vietnam and Iraq resulted in a darker portrayal of the imperial presidency, operated by way of Richard Nixon and Bush forty three. This fascinating new assortment additional considers how Hollywood has continuously reinterpreted traditionally major presidents, significantly Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, to slot the days during which videos approximately them have been made.
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S. box office, taking more than $120 million. For an account of the controversies over it and the debates between Moore, the Disney corporation, and eventual distributors Miramax, see Daniel P. Franklin, Politics and Film: The Political Culture of Film in the United States (Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006), 1–3. 23. elr=KArksD:aDyaEP:kD:aUnc5PDiUiD3aPc: _Yyc:aUU. 44 Ian Scott 24. Mark Wheeler. Hollywood Politics and Society (London: BFI Publishing, 2006), 139. 25. Hugh Brogan, Kennedy (Longman: London, 1996), 2.
Arthur M. , War and the American Presidency (New York: Norton, 2005); James Pfiffner, Power Play: The Bush Administration and the Constitution (Washington DC: Brookings Institution, 2008). 21. Michael Genovese and Lori Cox Han, The Presidency and the Challenge of Democracy (New York: Palgrave, 2006). 22. Taylor appears in his prepresidential career as an army general in Distant Drums (1951), a Raoul Walsh movie about the Seminole War of 1840 in Florida, which stars Gary Cooper. 23. The HBO series John Adams ran to seven episodes, only one of which dealt with his presidency.