Reelpolitik II

Beverly Merrill Kelley is full professor and founder of the communication department at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the film world moved from black and white to color, and politics moved from black and white to shades of gray. Kelley tells this story with sociological sweep, but also with a good eye for characters. John Wayne, Sam Fuller, and Stanley Kubrick all come back to life to tell us about their times. It's a fine book about real art, real people, and real politics.

• Chapter 1 1 Introduction: A Tale of Two Cities, Parameters, the Language of PoliticsChapter 2 2 Populism in The Last HurrahChapter 3 3 Elitism in Advise and ConsentChapter 4 4 Fascism in A Face in the CrowdChapter 5 5 Antifascism in Seven Days in MayChapter 6 6 Interventionism in The Green BeretsChapter 7 7 Isolationism in The Steel HelmetChapter 8 8 Cold War Hawkism in The Manchurian CandidateChapter 9 9 Cold War Dovism in Dr. Strangelove; or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the BombChapter 10 10 Conclusion: Myth, Megaphone, Metaphor, Mirror, Microscope, and Magic CarpetChapter 11 Ideological FilmolgoyChapter 12 Selected Bibliography