Philip John Davies AcSS is Professor of American Studies at De Montfort University, and Chair of the British Association for American Studies. Paul Wells is Professor and Head of Media Studies at the University of Teeside

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• Introduction - Philip John Davies & Paul Wells1. American cinema, political criticism and pragmatism: A therapeutic reading of Fight Club and Magnolia - Paul Watson2. 'Ask not what America can do for you…': Views from the White House: Hollywood in elections and elections in Hollywood - Philip John Davies3. Oliver Stone's presidential films - Albert Auster4. '…in order to form a more perfect union': some manifest destinies: Gender and family values in the Clinton presidency and 1990s Hollywood film - Carol R. Smith5. '…and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea': crossing boundaries: New York City in American film - Leonard Quart6. Dixie's land: Cinema of the American South - Ralph Willett7. '…into the crucible with you all, God is making the American…': melting pots and pans: Independent Cinema and modern Hollywood: pluralism in American cultural politics - Brian Neve8. 'I wanna be like you-oo-oo': Disnified politics and identity from 'The Little Mermaid' to' Mulan' - Paul Wells9. 'Oh! Say, does the star-spangled banner yet wave, o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?' : contemporary conflict and contradiction: Ambiguity and Anger : Representations of African Americans in contemporary Hollywood film - Mary Ellison10. The Adversarial Imagination - Phil Melling

Philip John Davies AcSS is Professor of American Studies at De Montfort University, and Chair of the British Association for American Studies. Paul Wells is Professor and Head of Media Studies at the University of Teeside

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• Introduction - Philip John Davies & Paul Wells1. American cinema, political criticism and pragmatism: A therapeutic reading of Fight Club and Magnolia - Paul Watson2. 'Ask not what America can do for you…': Views from the White House: Hollywood in elections and elections in Hollywood - Philip John Davies3. Oliver Stone's presidential films - Albert Auster4. '…in order to form a more perfect union': some manifest destinies: Gender and family values in the Clinton presidency and 1990s Hollywood film - Carol R. Smith5. '…and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea': crossing boundaries: New York City in American film - Leonard Quart6. Dixie's land: Cinema of the American South - Ralph Willett7. '…into the crucible with you all, God is making the American…': melting pots and pans: Independent Cinema and modern Hollywood: pluralism in American cultural politics - Brian Neve8. 'I wanna be like you-oo-oo': Disnified politics and identity from 'The Little Mermaid' to' Mulan' - Paul Wells9. 'Oh! Say, does the star-spangled banner yet wave, o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?' : contemporary conflict and contradiction: Ambiguity and Anger : Representations of African Americans in contemporary Hollywood film - Mary Ellison10. The Adversarial Imagination - Phil Melling

Philip John Davies AcSS is Professor of American Studies at De Montfort University, and Chair of the British Association for American Studies. Paul Wells is Professor and Head of Media Studies at the University of Teeside

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• Introduction - Philip John Davies & Paul Wells1. American cinema, political criticism and pragmatism: A therapeutic reading of Fight Club and Magnolia - Paul Watson2. 'Ask not what America can do for you…': Views from the White House: Hollywood in elections and elections in Hollywood - Philip John Davies3. Oliver Stone's presidential films - Albert Auster4. '…in order to form a more perfect union': some manifest destinies: Gender and family values in the Clinton presidency and 1990s Hollywood film - Carol R. Smith5. '…and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea': crossing boundaries: New York City in American film - Leonard Quart6. Dixie's land: Cinema of the American South - Ralph Willett7. '…into the crucible with you all, God is making the American…': melting pots and pans: Independent Cinema and modern Hollywood: pluralism in American cultural politics - Brian Neve8. 'I wanna be like you-oo-oo': Disnified politics and identity from 'The Little Mermaid' to' Mulan' - Paul Wells9. 'Oh! Say, does the star-spangled banner yet wave, o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?' : contemporary conflict and contradiction: Ambiguity and Anger : Representations of African Americans in contemporary Hollywood film - Mary Ellison10. The Adversarial Imagination - Phil Melling