Camera Politica

The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film

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by Michael Ryan and Douglas Kellner

Indiana University Press

Due/Published January 1990, 346 pages, paper

ISBN 0253206049

Camera Politica is a comprehensive study of Hollywood film during a period of tremendous change in American history, a period that witnessed the end of the American empire, crises in the economy, a failure of political leadership, loss at war, and the rise of the Right.

" . . . a modern mythography, a study of contemporary Hollywood films based on the tools offered by feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxist cultural theory, and deconstruction." --Village Voice